Turning points in the history of American evangelicalism / edited by Heath W. Carter & Laura Rominger Porter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carter, Heath W., editor.

Porter, Laura Rominger, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evangelicalism--United States.

Evangelicalism.

United States.

Physical Description:

xviii, 297 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, [2017]

Summary:

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. - from publisher.

Contents:

What made the Great Awakening great? / Harry S. Stout

The evangelical encounter with the Enlightenment / Catherine A. Brekus

Disestablishment as American Sisyphus / Jon Butler

Antebellum reform / Richard Carwardine

The rise of the domestic ideal in the United States and Canada / Marguerite Van Die

The civil war and the making of conservative American evangelicalism / Luke E. Harlow

The rise of fundamentalism / George M. Marsden

Urban Pentecostalism: Chicago, 1906-1912 / Edith L. Blumhofer

The Great Migration / Dennis C. Dickerson

The global turn in American evangelicalism / Mark Hutchinson

Billy Graham's 1949 Los Angeles revival / Grant Wacker

Lausanne '74 and American evangelicalism's Latin turn / Darren Dochuk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780802871527

0802871526

OCLC:

960086000

Publisher Number:

99971682324