Editors
D. Schwartz (Ed.)
Document Type
Occasional Paper
Publication Date
4-2014
Publication Title
Center for Gaming Research Occasional Paper Series: Paper 24
Publisher Location
Las Vegas, Nevada
First page number:
1
Last page number:
10
Abstract
An exploration of Billy Graham’s 1978 Christian Crusade in Las Vegas, this paper argues that the Billy Graham Evangelical Association (BGEA) developed distinctly Vegas-styled evangelical tactics to address challenges posed by the city’s fragile religious infrastructure and competing attractions on the Las Vegas Strip. To organize a spectacular and successful ecumenical event that would garner local and national attention, BGEA simultaneously leveraged popular notions of Vegas as “Sin City” while recruiting Christian evangelicals from beyond the city proper to temporarily transform the religious ecology of the Strip.
Keywords
Christianity; Evangelicalism; Graham; Billy; 1918-; Nevada--Las Vegas
Disciplines
Christian Denominations and Sects | History of Religion | Sociology
File Format
Language
English
Repository Citation
Robinson, M.
(2014).
Billy Graham Comes to Las Vegas: Faith at Work on the Strip. In D. Schwartz (Ed.),
Center for Gaming Research Occasional Paper Series: Paper 24
1-10.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/occ_papers/30
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