Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism

Lucid, authoritative overview of a major movement in American history The history of American evangelicalism is perhaps best understood by examining its turning points—those moments when it took on a new scope, challenge, or influence. The Great Awakening, the rise of fundamentalism and Pentecostalism, the emergence of Billy Graham—all these developments and many more have given shape to one of the most dynamic movements in American religious history. Taken together, these turning points serve as a clear and helpful roadmap for understanding how evangelicalism has become what it is today. Each chapter in this book has been written by one of the world's top experts in American religious history, and together they form a single narrative of evangelicalism's remarkable development. Here is an engaging, balanced, coherent history of American evangelicalism from its origins as a small movement to its status as a central player in the American religious story.Contributors & TopicsHarry S. Stout on the Great AwakeningCatherine A. Brekus on the evangelical encounter with the EnlightenmentJon Butler on disestablishmentRichard Carwardine on antebellum reformMarguerite Van Die on the rise of the domestic idealLuke E. Harlow on the Civil War and conservative American evangelicalismGeorge M. Marsden on the rise of fundamentalismEdith Blumhofer on urban PentecostalismDennis C. Dickerson on the Great MigrationMark Hutchinson on the global turn in American evangelicalismGrant Wacker on Billy Graham's 1949 Los Angeles revivalDarren Dochuk on American evangelicalism's Latin turn