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Eileen Luhr serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of History at California State University, Long Beach, where she specializes in 20th century United States history with particular focus on the cultural intersections of religion, politics, and popular culture.
Her research examines the suburbanization of evangelicalism and the rise of Christian popular culture, especially music, from the Jesus Freaks movement of the late 1960s through Christian heavy metal and rock festivals. Dr. Luhr's scholarly work investigates how conservative religious movements engaged with youth culture and consumerism to reshape American political discourse during the Reagan-Bush era.
Her major publication Witnessing Suburbia (2009) analyzes how evangelicals created a politicized youth culture that represented one of the major achievements of 'third wave' conservatism in the late twentieth century. The book explores how suburban evangelicals used consumer culture to 'witness' to America through what she terms an 'MTV approach to evangelism.'
Reviews of her work highlight its thorough research and significance for understanding the evolution of mainstream evangelicals' attitudes toward popular culture over the past forty years, filling an important gap in histories of conservative Christianity and American cultural studies.
