Some people think that evangelicals only do charity out of a selfish desire to convert non-believers. Others insist that evangelical faith-based organizations are secretly installing a Christian theocracy. Both assumptions are misguided in my view because they are too narrow. Moral Ambition seeks to broaden (and refine) our sense of what everyday evangelicals believe they are doing, or would like to be doing, when they engage the public sphere.
Omri Elisha
Omri Elisha is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Queens College, City University of New York. He is the author of Moral Ambition: Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches (2011), published in the Anthropology of Christianity series from University of California Press. He received his Ph.D. from New York University.
