Swaggart
an unauthorized biography of an American evangelist
by Ann Rowe Seaman
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"This is the first biography of Jimmy Swaggart to date. But it's not just Jimmy's story; it's the tale of the rise of two intimately linked colossi of the American century: Pentecostalism, the fastest growing religious movement in the world, and its "evil twin," Rock and Roll."--BOOK JACKET.
"A major theme of the book is how the religious ecstasy of Pentecostalism - the rousing music, the speaking in tongues, the reception of the Spirit - combined with its severe sexual repression leads to the kind of furtive acting out that brought down not only Jimmy Swaggart but also numerous other evangelists. It's the story, too, of the rapid rise of the Religious Right, with its competing personalities and ideologies.
In the end, the author sees Jimmy as a victim - like many others - of a primitive faith colliding with the forces of late twentieth-century fame."--BOOK JACKET.
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Swaggart: the Unauthorized Biography of an American Evangelist
2014, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Swaggart: The Unauthorized Biography of an American Evangelist
2001, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
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Swaggart: The Unauthorized Biography of an American Evangelist
April 15, 2001, Continuum International Publishing Group
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Swaggart: an unauthorized biography of an American evangelist
1999, Continuum
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Swaggart: The Unauthorized Biography of an American Evangelist
November 1999, Continuum International Publishing Group
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This biography of Jimmy Swaggart relates his early years in poverty as a sharecropper's son. Born around the same time are his famous cousins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley. This book also details the rise of Pentecostalism and its "evil twin" Rock and Roll. Jimmy Swaggart was one of the most popular video preachers in the world, until a moment of indiscretion in a New Orleans motel. This unauthorized biography looks at Swaggart's life, as well as discussing the religious and societal movements responsible, in part, for his rise and fall. Ann Rowe Seaman approaches her subject not with Old Testament invective but with a patience that conveys an intimate understanding of the man's world. While not an apologist for Swaggart, Seaman probes beyond the headlines for the factors that shaped the pastor's psyche and defined his world. The result is an intelligent and smoothly readable personal history that chronicles a fascinating slice of Americana.
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