American evangelicals : a contemporary history of a mainstream religious movement

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

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: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008.
Series:Critical issues in history.
Subjects:
Evangelicalism > United States.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Evangelicalism
Evangeliaria.
United States > Church history.
United States
Verenigde Staten.
Church history
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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.

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