On the boundaries of American Evangelicalism : the postwar Evangelical coalition / Jon R. Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Jon R., 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evangelicalism--United States--History--20th century.

Evangelicalism.

United States.

History.

United States--Church history--20th century.

Church history.

Physical Description:

x, 229 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Summary:

Evangelicalism has secured a permanent place in the minds of Americans in the last half of the twentieth century. The American Evangelical movement consists of a vast and nearly indefinable coalitional movement of sometimes competing, sometimes cooperating, denominations and independent churches whose ideological boundaries have been shifting since its postwar reemergence. On the Boundaries of American Evangelicalism seeks to account for the emergence of this coalition of moderate Protestants in the 1940s and 1950s as distinct from fundamentalism on the right and liberalism on the left and speculate on the reasons for the fracturing and decline of that coalition in the 1960s to the 1990s. Theoretically, this study draws on the insights of major sociological and anthropological scholars to construct a theoretical model to frame the analysis in terms of the relational and oppositional aspects of group boundary dynamics. Beyond recounting the history of postwar evangelicalism, this volume contributes to our understanding of ideological movements and the shifts that occur within them over time.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Defining Evangelical Diversity 1

Chapter 2 A Boundary Approach to the Study of American Evangelical Protestantism 23

Chapter 3 The Liberal and Conservative Divide in American Protestantism, 1880-1930 51

Chapter 4 The Emergence of a "New" Evangelicalism, 1940-1960 73

Chapter 5 The Evangelical Boundary Dilemma: Checking the Drift toward Liberalism, 1940-1965 117

Chapter 6 The End of the New Evangelical Coalition, 1965-1990 159.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Berkeley, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-220) and index.

ISBN:

0312173423

OCLC:

36648911