American Evangelicals: A Contemporary History of a Mainstream Religious Movement
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 gender and racial equality, Hankins analyzes what is most essential for us to understand today about this potent movement.
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American Evangelicals: A Contemporary History of a Mainstream Religious Movement
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 gender and racial equality, Hankins analyzes what is most essential for us to understand today about this potent movement.
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American Evangelicals: A Contemporary History of a Mainstream Religious Movement

American Evangelicals: A Contemporary History of a Mainstream Religious Movement

by Barry Hankins
American Evangelicals: A Contemporary History of a Mainstream Religious Movement

American Evangelicals: A Contemporary History of a Mainstream Religious Movement

by Barry Hankins

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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 gender and racial equality, Hankins analyzes what is most essential for us to understand today about this potent movement.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780742570252
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/16/2009
Series: Critical Issues in American History
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 220
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Barry Hankins is professor of history and church-state studies at Baylor University. He is author of Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture and God's Rascal: J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of the Southern Fundamentalism.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: Awakenings and the Beginning of American Evangelicalism Chapter 1: The Struggle with Modernism: Origins of the Culture Wars Chapter 2: Battling with Science: From Anti-Evolution to the Intelligent Design Chapter 3: Millennialism: Folk Religion and the Career of End-Times Prophecy Chapter 4: Considering Equality: The Tradition of Gender, Race, and Gay Rights Chapter 5: Inspired Politics: Evangelical Religion in the Political Marketplace Chapter 6: Back to the Academy: Evangelical Scholars and the American Mind Conclusion Bibliography
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