{"product_id":"flea-market-jesus-paperback","title":"Flea Market Jesus - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArthur E. Farnsley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmericans live their lives through institutions: government, businesses, schools, clubs, and houses of worship. But many Americans are wary of the control these groups--especially government and business--exercise over their lives. Flea Market Jesus provides an up-close look at the rugged individualism of those trying hardest to separate themselves from institutions: flea market dealers. Having spent most of his life studying American religious organizations, Art Farnsley turns his attention to America's most solitary, and alienated, entrepreneurs. Farnsley describes an entire subculture of white Midwesterners--working class, middle class, and poor--gathered together in a uniquely American celebration of guns and frontier life. In this mix, the character \"Cochise\" voices the frustrations of flea market dealers toward business, politics, and, especially, religion. Part ethnography, part autobiography, Flea Market Jesus is a story about alienation, biblical literalism, libertarianism, and deep-seated religious belief. It is not about the Tea Party, the Occupy movement, or the Christian Right, but it shines a light on all of these by highlighting the potent combination of mistrust, resentment, and personal liberty too often kept in the shadows of public discourse among educated elites.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eArthur E. Farnsley II is Research Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSouthern Baptist Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (1994); \u003ci\u003eRising Expectations: Urban Congregations, Welfare Reform and Civic Life\u003c\/i\u003e (2003); and \u003ci\u003eSacred Circles, Public Squares: The Multicentering of an American City\u003c\/i\u003e (2004). His stories have appeared on the cover of \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Century\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also twenty-two-time knife and tomahawk champion of the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42777326321760,"sku":"9781610979856","price":30.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/WHyIwmMkG9781610979856.webp?v=1780041045","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/flea-market-jesus-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}