Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism

<DIV><I>Lucid authoritative overview of a major movement in American history</I><BR /><BR /> The history of American evangelicalism is perhaps best understood by examining its <I>turning points</I>—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.<BR /><BR /> 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.<BR /><BR /><B>Contributors & Topics</B><BR /><BR /><B>Harry S. Stout</B> <I>on</I> the Great Awakening<BR /><B>Catherine A. Brekus</B> <I>on</I> the evangelical encounter with the Enlightenment<BR /><B>Jon Butler</B> <I>on</I> disestablishment<BR /><B>Richard Carwardine</B> <I>on</I> antebellum reform<BR /><B>Marguerite Van Die</B> <I>on</I> the rise of the domestic ideal<BR /><B>Luke E. Harlow</B> <I>on</I> the Civil War and conservative American evangelicalism<BR /><B>George M. Marsden</B> <I>on</I> the rise of fundamentalism<BR /><B>Edith Blumhofer</B> <I>on</I> urban Pentecostalism<BR /><B>Dennis C. Dickerson</B> <I>on</I> the Great Migration<BR /><B>Mark Hutchinson</B> <I>on</I> the global turn in American evangelicalism<BR /><B>Grant Wacker</B> <I>on</I> Billy Graham's 1949 Los Angeles revival<BR /><B>Darren Dochuk</B> <I>on</I> American evangelicalism's Latin turn</DIV>