Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork, James S. Bielo explores the impact of the Emerging Church movement on American Evangelicals. He combines ethnographic analysis with discussions of the movement's history, discursive contours, defining practices, cultural logics, and contentious interactions with conservative Evangelical critics to rethink the boundaries of "Evangelical" as a category. --from publisher description.

Introduction : conceptualizing emerging evangelicalism -- Stories of deconversion -- Ironies of faith -- Ancient-future I : experiencing God -- Ancient-future II : everyday monastics -- Missional I : everyday missionaries -- Missional II : kingdom theologies -- Church planting I : a new work -- Church planting II : sense of place -- Conclusion : dialogic evangelicalism.