Biblical Porn

Between 1996 and 2014, Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Church multiplied from its base in Seattle into fifteen facilities spread across five states with 13,000 attendees. When it closed, the church was beset by scandal, with former attendees testifying to spiritual abuse, emotional manipulation, and financial exploitation. In this book, the author examines how Mars Hill's congregants became entangled in processes of religious conviction. The author shows how they were affectively recruited into sexualized and militarized dynamics of power through the mobilization of what she calls "biblical porn" -…