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577: How Church Became Theater & the Evangelical Imagination with Karen Swallow Prior

The Holy Post

CHAPTER

The Social Imaginary

The title is a little bit of a misleading because it's not just about the imagination. It's about a concept that some, you know, I think most people have heard of whether they've actually read about it. An imaginary is like a pool, a communal pool, a collection,. A society sort of inherited traditional stories, narratives, images, myth legends and pre-cognitive notions. And there isn't just one evangelical social imaginary. There are many of them, so to speak.

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