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Book SynopsisA collection of key primary readings tracing the history and development of Protestant evangelicalism and fundamentalism and its intersections with American life and politics
Trade Review"Barry Hankins has assembled an accessible, well-organized volume of primary documents that willhelp the student of American religion interpret the core tenets of American fundamentalist Christianity." * Louisiana History *
"A great service for all of us who teach undergraduate and graduate courses in U.S. religious history. This fine historian has provided us with a representative collection of primary texts, in the process allowing our students the opportunity to encounter the diversity of evangelicals and evangelical ideas in twentieth-century America." -- William Vance Trollinger,author of God's Empire: William Bell Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism
"Scholars, students and the general reading public have long needed a book like this one. Its judicious selections, helpful introductions, and intelligent arrangement open up a history that has been too often obscured by partisanship and sloppy reporting." -- Mark Noll,University of Notre Dame
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Bible and Evangelism 2 The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy 3 Dispensational Premillennialism 4 Evangelicals and Evolution before Scopes 5 Evangelicals and Science after Scopes 6 Evangelicals and Politics before 1980 7 Evangelicals and Politics since 1980 8 Social Positions: Gender and Race 9 Fundamentalists, Evangelicals, and Catholics Notes Index About the Author
