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Projecting the Nation
History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen
Post-Communist Malaise
Cinematic Responses to European Integration
Planet Auschwitz
Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television
Mediating the Uprising
Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama
Losing Culture
Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times
Diversity Regimes
Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities
Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist
Working the Margins of Law, Power, and Justice
Anthropological Lives
An Introduction to the Profession of Anthropology
The Glass Church
Robert H. Schuller, the Crystal Cathedral, and the Strain of Megachurch Ministry
Robert H. Schuller’s ministry—including the architectural wonder of the Crystal Cathedral and the polished television broadcast of Hour of Power—cast a broad shadow over American Christianity. Pastors flocked to Southern California to learn Schuller’s techniques. The President of United States invited him sit prominently next to the First Lady at the State of the Union Address. Muhammad Ali asked for the pastor’s autograph. It seemed as if Schuller may have started a second Reformation. And then it all went away. As Schuller’s ministry wrestled with internal turmoil and bankruptcy, his emulators—including Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, and Joel Osteen— nurtured megachurches that seemed to sweep away the Crystal Cathedral as a relic of the twentieth century. How did it come to this? The Glass Church examines the spectacular collapse of The Crystal Cathedral to better understand both the strength and fragility of Schuller’s ministry. The apparent success of the ministry obscured the many tensions that often threatened its future.
Scarlet and Black
Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History
The work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History.