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Saints and Sinners
Lawrence Wright
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Walker Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Anton LaVey, Will Campbell , Matthew Fox
出版Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011-05-04
主題Social Science / Sociology of ReligionTrue Crime / Con Artists, Hoaxes & DeceptionsBiography & Autobiography / Religious
ISBN03077907119780307790712
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1bwDrFdnNcsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes a fascinating book about religion in America, about the passions, triumphs, and failures of the life of faith, revealing stories of grace and despair, sexual scandal and attempted murder.  •  "Insightful...vivid...beautifully rendered stories." —Chicago Tribune

Lawrence Wright's Saints and Sinners are Jimmy Swaggart, who preached a hellfire gospel with rock 'n' roll abandon before he was caught with a, prostitute in a seedy motel; Anton LaVey, the kitsch-loving, gleefully fraudulent founder of the First Church of Satan; Madalyn Murray O'Hair, whose litigious atheism sometimes resembled a brand of faith; Matthew Fox, the Dominican priest who has aroused the fury of the Vatican for dismissing the doctrine of original sin and denouncing the church as a dysfunctional family; Walker Railey, the rising star of Dallas's Methodist church, who, at the pinnacle of his success, was suspected of attempting to murder his wife; and Will Campbell, the eccentric liberal Southern Baptist preacher whose challenges to established ways of thinking have made him a legend in his own time.