Barry Hankins

American Evangelicals (eBook, PDF)

A Contemporary History of a Mainstream Religious Movement

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780742570269
• Artikelnr.: 38218289

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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