Why They Are Popular and Appeal to the Masses
Introduction
This book focuses on the world’s most high-ranking religious leaders and their religious practices and beliefs. All these leaders bases or come from the United States of America, the books entirely focuses on changes in religious views in America and the American culture. These world prominent religious leaders seem to practice the things they say they do not practice. This is ironical and makes people interested in their teachings to uncover the truth behind their teaching. These prominent world leaders are the most popular and appeals significantly to the masses than any other religious leaders in the United States of America. The reasons behind their popularity and influence in to the masses are seen through a number of their teachings and practices, which make the masses to follow them than any other religious world leaders. Some of the reasons behind their massive following include addressing crucial world issue such as gender equality, fighting for women rights, and addressing vital political issues among other issues (Shayne and Phillip, 2009).
This book introduces one to the world’s most influential religious personalities who dominates the religious field in America and even the entire world. The authors of the book give insights about these leaders and the messages they advocate for in their ministries for a certain audience. They also show the reasons behind the success domination of these leaders in America despite the existence of many other religious leaders. The books gives leaders a inner depth of understanding events in the religious field, it also makes it easier for readers to relate the success of the leaders and their practices in religion sector (Shayne and Phillip, 2009).
Holy Mavericks provides an open way to observe change in American religion and culture. He even shows the audience the reason for occurrence of such changes. The book shows that these prominent religious leaders despite claiming that they do not practice the old time religion in their teachings and action, they still do. The book addresses women issues for instance; it gives in detail the history of American women from the old times to the new ages. It shows the kinds of changes these women have undergone in the society since the ancient times. The book explains the reasons for the success of these leaders despite the irony that they do not use the old ways of religious practice in their service line.
In any society, politics is a vital object as it dictates the stability and prosperity of a nation or sate. This book gives an in-depth of the American politics and political system. The author not only contributes to the public’s understanding of suffrage victories in America, but also aid people to understand the regional politics and the vagaries in electoral politics. It shows American through the struggles to the point at which they won their political will despite the diversity in America.
The books focuses more than on the rumours and speculations commonly witnessed in the media concerning religion. It provides more insightful issues on the high-ranking religious ministries in today’s American masses. It does this by combining sociological analysis and with crucial historical contexts. He explains the reasons to the successful dominant nature of these religious as their willingness to transact business beyond traditional religious settings. They involve commerce understanding, political issues, and faith intersection in their teachings. This shows diversity in their in their teachings as compared to other religious in the world (Shayne and Phillip, 2009).
This book writings are noticeably to help not only scholars and students of religious studies understand the success of these influential leaders and how they achieved it but it also gives ordinary readers easy time in understanding the same. The explanations for the success of these leaders are convincing and applicable in the current American political, religious, and cultural settings. One factor that supports this is the descriptive contribution of the supply-side and the economics of religion concerning religious success in America.
The reasons behind the popularity of these leaders are diverse and consist of combination of different factors. These factors are the use of multimedia in their ministries to pass their messages to the masses. These high-ranking world religious leaders use the current media to appeal to the masses. Billion of people all over the world can access these media via live stream of viewings hence the massive following they control as many people can view their teaching at a go. They also teach about vital areas that affect the lives of most people in America and even the entire universe hence many people are keen about their teaching programs. It is logical that when an individual teaches about the issues affecting an individual’s life, he or she tends to follow that person hoping for a solution to his or her problems. From the reading, one can conclude that success of any religious leader does not only depend only on religion but also other fields such as politics and commerce (Shayne and Phillip, 2009).
Work cited
Shayne Lee and Phillip Luke Sinitiere, Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace, New York University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780814752340.
