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...

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Main Author: Hankins, Barry, 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008.
Series:Critical issues in history.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of 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.