Body Piercing Saved My Life

by Beaujon, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780306814570
• ISBN10: 0306814579
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-08
• Publisher: Da Capo Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
1 I Swear	1	(18)
2 No More LSD for Me (I Met the Man from Galilee)	19	(36)
CHRISTIAN ROCK LIFERS #1: Doug Van Pelt	45	(10)
3 More Than Just a Song	55	(20)
4 The Baffled King Composing Hallelujah	75	(30)
CHRISTIAN ROCK LIFERS #2: Steve Taylor	95	(10)
5 Clarity	105	(10)
6 Drinking Blood Out of Skulls, Living High in the Kingdom of Death, and a New Way to Be Christian	115	(34)
CHRISTIAN ROCK LIFERS #3: Jay Swartzendruber	139	(10)
7 Salt and Light, Inc.	149	(20)
8 If We Are the Body	169	(18)
CHRISTIAN ROCK LIFERS #4: Bill Hearn	179	(8)
9 Black and White in a Gray World	187	(38)
CHRISTIAN ROCK LIFERS #5: Mark Salomon	217	(8)
10 To Be Mad for My King	225	(22)
11 Just Like Heaven	247	(22)
Afterword	269	(4)
Notes	273	(2)
Bibliography	275	(2)
Index	277