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A 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 & Topics include Harry S. Stout on the Great
Awakening, Catherine A. Brekus on the evangelical encounter with
the Enlightenment and Jon Butler on disestablishment.
Up-to-date one-volume edition of a standard text. For decades
students and scholars have turned to the two-volume Documentary
History of Religion in America for access to the most significant
primary sources relating to American religious history from the
16th century to the present. This 4th edition-published in a single
volume for the first time-has been updated and condensed, allowing
instructors to more easily cover the material in a single semester.
With more than 100 illustrations and a rich array of primary
documents ranging from the letters and accounts of early colonists
to tweets and transcripts from the 2016 presidential election, this
volume remains an essential text for readers who want to encounter
firsthand the astonishing scope of religious belief and practice in
American history.
The Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of
scholars working at the nexus where religious history and
working-class history converge. Focusing on Christianity and its
unique purchase in America, the contributors use in-depth local
histories to illustrate how Americans male and female, rural and
urban, and from a range of ethnic backgrounds dwelt in a space
between the church and the shop floor. Their vivid essays show
Pentecostal miners preaching prosperity while seeking miracles in
the depths of the earth, while aboveground black sharecroppers and
white Protestants establish credit unions to pursue a joint vision
of cooperative capitalism. Innovative and essential, The Pew and
the Picket Line reframes venerable debates as it maps the dynamic
contours of a landscape sculpted by the powerful forces of
Christianity and capitalism. Contributors: Christopher D. Cantwell,
Heath W. Carter, Janine Giordano Drake, Ken Fones-Wolf, Erik
Gellman, Alison Collis Greene, Brett Hendrickson, Dan McKanan,
Matthew Pehl, Kerry L. Pimblott, Jarod Roll, Evelyn Sterne, and
Arlene Sanchez Walsh.
The Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of
scholars working at the nexus where religious history and
working-class history converge. Focusing on Christianity and its
unique purchase in America, the contributors use in-depth local
histories to illustrate how Americans male and female, rural and
urban, and from a range of ethnic backgrounds dwelt in a space
between the church and the shop floor. Their vivid essays show
Pentecostal miners preaching prosperity while seeking miracles in
the depths of the earth, while aboveground black sharecroppers and
white Protestants establish credit unions to pursue a joint vision
of cooperative capitalism. Innovative and essential, The Pew and
the Picket Line reframes venerable debates as it maps the dynamic
contours of a landscape sculpted by the powerful forces of
Christianity and capitalism. Contributors: Christopher D. Cantwell,
Heath W. Carter, Janine Giordano Drake, Ken Fones-Wolf, Erik
Gellman, Alison Collis Greene, Brett Hendrickson, Dan McKanan,
Matthew Pehl, Kerry L. Pimblott, Jarod Roll, Evelyn Sterne, and
Arlene Sanchez Walsh.
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