Salvation with a Smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity
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Joel Osteen, the smiling preacher, has quickly emerged as one of the most recognizable Protestant leaders in the country. His megachurch, the Houston based Lakewood Church, hosts an average of over 40,000 worshipers each week. Osteen is the best-selling author of numerous books, and his sermons and inspirational talks appear regularly on mainstream cable and satellite radio.
How did Joel Osteen become Joel Osteen? How did Lakewood become the largest megachurch in the U. S.?
Salvation with a Smile, the first book devoted to Lakewood Church and Joel Osteen, offers a critical history of the congregation by linking its origins to post-World War II neopentecostalism, and connecting it to the exceptionally popular prosperity gospel movement and the enduring attraction of televangelism. In this richly documented book, historian Phillip Luke Sinitiere carefully excavates the life and times of Lakewood's founder, John Osteen, to explain how his son Joel expanded his legacy and fashioned the congregation into America's largest megachurch.
As a popular preacher, Joel Osteen's ministry has been a source of existential strength for many, but also the routine target of religious critics who vociferously contend that his teachings are theologically suspect and spiritually shallow. Sinitiere's keen analysis shows how Osteen's rebuttals have expressed a piety of resistance that demonstrates evangelicalism's fractured, but persistent presence.
Salvation with a Smile situates Lakewood Church in the context of American religious history and illuminates how Osteen has parlayed an understanding of American religious and political culture into vast popularity and success.
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Phillip Luke Sinitiere. (2015). Salvation with a Smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity. NYU Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Phillip Luke Sinitiere. 2015. Salvation With a Smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity. NYU Press.
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Joel Osteen, the smiling preacher, has quickly emerged as one of the most recognizable Protestant leaders in the country. His megachurch, the Houston based Lakewood Church, hosts an average of over 40,000 worshipers each week. Osteen is the best-selling author of numerous books, and his sermons and inspirational talks appear regularly on mainstream cable and satellite radio.
How did Joel Osteen become Joel Osteen? How did Lakewood become the largest megachurch in the U. S.?
Salvation with a Smile, the first book devoted to Lakewood Church and Joel Osteen, offers a critical history of the congregation by linking its origins to post-World War II neopentecostalism, and connecting it to the exceptionally popular prosperity gospel movement and the enduring attraction of televangelism. In this richly documented book, historian Phillip Luke Sinitiere carefully excavates the life and times of Lakewood's founder, John Osteen, to explain how his son Joel expanded his legacy and fashioned the congregation into America's largest megachurch.
As a popular preacher, Joel Osteen's ministry has been a source of existential strength for many, but also the routine target of religious critics who vociferously contend that his teachings are theologically suspect and spiritually shallow. Sinitiere's keen analysis shows how Osteen's rebuttals have expressed a piety of resistance that demonstrates evangelicalism's fractured, but persistent presence.
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- content: Sinitiere takes Osteen seriously, painstakingly explaining how he became 'America's most notable evangelical preacher.'
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- content: Sinitiere has writtena remarkable and trenchant study of Joel Osteen, senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston...Osteens sunny message has attracted much controversy, not least from other conservative Christians, but his megasuccess, Sinitiere brilliantly shows, says a great deal about the state of religion in America.A fascinating, illuminating, and at times disturbing account from a shrewd observer.
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- content: Combining historical research, documentary investigation, and the observations of participants, Sinitiere situates the stirring success of Lakewood Church (the U.S.'s largest megachurch) and Joel Osteen Ministries within the broader American evangelical and neo-Pentecostal context.
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- content: Charismatic Christianity is increasingly the face of American evangelicalism, and a smiling one at that. Joel Osteen is a major reason why. In this deeply researched and richly contextualized study, Phillip Luke Sinitiere nominates Osteen as Americas new pastor. No fair-minded reader will come away doubting Osteens significance and genius. Anyone interested in the nations protean religious landscape will benefit from this scholarly labor of love.
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- content: The best possible book on Joel Osteen and his place in American religious history. Well researched and well written, it uses Osteens own words to portray the man who can now rightfully be called 'Americas Pastor' as Billy Graham passes from the scene. . . . What emerges is a positive yet objective picture of the popular preacher with the big smile who has built the largest congregation in the history of the American church.
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Starred review from September 14, 2015
Sinitiere (Holy Mavericks) explores the people, place, personality, Pentecostalism, and prosperity of Lakewood Church in Houston, Tex., focusing on its central personality, Pastor Joel Osteen, as an exemplar of evangelical Christianity and present-day American religion. Combining historical research, documentary investigation, and the observations of participants, Sinitiere situates the stirring success of Lakewood Church (the U.S.’s largest megachurch) and Joel Osteen Ministries within the broader American evangelical and neo-Pentecostal context. He depicts the church as distinctively positioned to benefit from currents in contemporary Christianity through its harnessing of multiple media platforms and the powers of positive confession and thinking in place of grander expressions of Lakewood’s historical “charismatic core”—divine healing, speaking in tongues, prophecy—under Joel’s father, John Osteen. Although Sinitiere does not talk to Osteen himself, he is able to deduce much from his sermons, conversations with Lakewood members, and the greater critique of Christianity’s “crisis of authority.” Readers interested in American Christianity, especially those who have seen Joel on television, read his books, or been blown away from the bombastic experience that is worshipping at Lakewood Church, will enjoy this work.
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Starred review from October 1, 2015
Sinitiere (history, Coll. of Biblical Studies, coauthor, Holy Mavericks) has written a remarkable and trenchant study of Joel Osteen, senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, the largest Protestant church in the United States, welcoming approximately 40,000 worshipers each week. Following in the footsteps of his late father John Osteen, founder of Lakewood and an advocate of neo-Pentecostalism, or crossing denominational boundaries, Joel is an exponent of the "prosperity Gospel," a creed that associates enthusiastic faith with joy and success in the present day, almost to the exclusion of any mention of pastoral standbys such as sin or judgment. Sinitiere sketches Osteen's life and career, emphasizing his early experience as a television producer as well as the implications of being son to a prominent preacher. Osteen's sunny message has attracted much controversy, not least from other conservative Christians, but his megasuccess, Sinitiere brilliantly shows, says a great deal about the state of religion in America. VERDICT A fascinating, illuminating, and at times disturbing account from a shrewd observer.--Graham Christian, formerly with Andover-Harvard Theological Lib., Cambridge, MA
Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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