Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock

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Da Capo Press, May 9, 2006 - Biography & Autobiography - 291 pages
Body Piercing Saved My Life is the first in-depth journalistic investigation into a subculture so large that it's erroneous to even call it a subculture: Christian rock. Christian rock culture is booming, not only with bands but with extreme teen Bibles, skateboarding ministries, Christian tattoo parlors, paintball parks, coffeehouses, and nightclubs,encouraging kids to form their own communities apart from the mainstream. Profiling such successful Christian rock bands as P.O.D., Switchfoot, Creed, Evanescence, and Sixpence None the Richer, as well as the phenomenally successful Seattle Christian record label Tooth & Nail, enormous Christian rock festivals, and more, Spin journalist Andrew Beaujon lifts the veil on a thriving scene that operates beneath the secular world's radar. Revealing, sympathetic, and groundbreaking, Body Piercing Saved My Life (named for a popular Christian rock T-shirt depicting Christ's wounds) is a fascinating look into the hearts and minds of an enormous, and growing, youth culture.
 

Contents

No More LSD for Me I Met the Man from Galilee
19
Doug Van Pelt
45
Steve Taylor
95
Kingdom of Death and a New Way to Be Christian
115
Jay Swartzendruber
139
Bill Hearn
179
Mark Salomon
217
Afterword
269
Bibliography
275
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Andrew Beaujon is a senior contributing writer for Spin and has written for the Washington Post, Washington City Paper, the Guardian, and Salon. He lives in Virginia.

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