American evangelicals : a contemporary history of a mainstream religious movement /

American evangelicals : a contemporary history of a mainstream religious movement /

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Author / Creator:	Hankins, Barry, 1956-
Imprint:	Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, γ̐ư2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 205 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Critical issues in history Critical issues in history.
Subject:	Evangelicalism -- United States. Evangelicalism. United States -- Church history. United States. Electronic books. Church history.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11190987

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ISBN:	9780742570269 0742570266 9780742549890 0742549895 1282497561 9781282497566 9786612497568 6612497564
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-193) and index. English. Print version record.
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 18th 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.
Other form:	Print version: Hankins, Barry, 1956- American evangelicals. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008 9780742549890 0742549895 Print version: Hankins, Barry, 1956- American evangelicals. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, γ̐ư2008 9780742549890 0742549895

Table of Contents:

Awakenings and the beginning of American evengelicalism
The struggle with modernism : origins of the culture wars
Battling with science : from antievolution to 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.