American evangelicals : a contemporary history of a mainstream religious movement / Barry Hankins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hankins, Barry, 1956-

Series:

Critical issues in history.

Critical issues in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evangelicalism--United States.

Evangelicalism.

United States--Church history.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There may be no group in American society that is more talked about but so little understood as Evangelical Christians. Sometimes dismissed as violent fundamentalists and ignorant flat earthers, few can doubt the political, cultural, and religious significance of the Evangelicals. Barry Hankins puts the Evangelical movement in historical perspective, reaching back to its roots in the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century and leading up to the formative moments of contemporary conservative Protestantism. Taking on key topics such as the standing of science, the authority of scripture, and g

Contents:

Awakening and the beginning of American evengelicalism

The struggle with modernism : origins of the culture wars

Battling with science : from antievolution to the intelligent design

Millennialism : folk religion and the career of end-times prophecy

Considering equality : the tradition of gender, race, and gay rights

Inspired politics : evangelical religion in the political marketplace

Back to the academy : evangelical scholars and the American mind.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-193) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-49756-1

9786612497568

0-7425-7026-6

OCLC:

318209991