Lucid, authoritative overview of a major movement in American history
The history of American evangelicalism is perhaps best understood by examining its
turning points
--those moments when it took on a new scope, challenge, or influence. The Great Awakening, the rise of fundamentalism and Pentecostalism, the emergence of Billy Graham--all these developments and many more have given shape to one of the most dynamic movements in American religious history. Taken together, these turning points serve as a clear and helpful roadmap for understanding how evangelicalism has become what it is today. Each chapter in this book has been written by one of the world's top experts in American religious history, and together they form a single narrative of evangelicalism's remarkable development. Here is an engaging, balanced, coherent history of American evangelicalism from its origins as a small movement to its status as a central player in the American religious story.
Contributors & Topics
Harry S. Stout
on
the Great Awakening
Catherine A. Brekus
the evangelical encounter with the Enlightenment
Jon Butler
disestablishment
Richard Carwardine
antebellum reform
Marguerite Van Die
the rise of the domestic ideal
Luke E. Harlow
the Civil War and conservative American evangelicalism
George M. Marsden
the rise of fundamentalism
Edith Blumhofer
urban Pentecostalism
Dennis C. Dickerson
the Great Migration
Mark Hutchinson
the global turn in American evangelicalism
Grant Wacker
Billy Graham's 1949 Los Angeles revival
Darren Dochuk
American evangelicalism's Latin turn