The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

* Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award
* National Book Award Finalist
* Time magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year
* New York Times Notable Book
* Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017

This â€œepic historyâ€ (The Boston Globe) from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frances FitzGerald is the first to tell the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in Americaâ€”from the Puritan era to the 2016 election. â€œWe have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided itâ€ (The New York Times Book Review).

The evangelical movement began in the revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, known in America as the Great Awakenings. A populist rebellion against the established churches, it became the dominant religious force in the country.

During the nineteenth century white evangelicals split apart, first North versus South, and then, modernist versus fundamentalist. After World War II, Billy Graham attracted enormous crowds and tried to gather all Protestants under his big tent, but the civil rights movement and the social revolution of the sixties drove them apart again. By the 1980s Jerry Falwell and other southern televangelists, such as Pat Robertson, had formed the Christian right. Protesting abortion and gay rights, they led the South into the Republican Party, and for thirty-five years they were the sole voice of evangelicals to be heard nationally. Eventually a younger generation proposed a broader agenda of issues, such as climate change, gender equality, and immigration reform.

Evangelicals now constitute twenty-five percent of the American population, but they are no longer monolithic in their politics. They range from Tea Party supporters to social reformers. Still, with the decline of religious faith generally, FitzGerald suggests that evangelical churches must embrace ethnic minorities if they are to survive. â€œA well-written, thought-provoking, and deeply researched history that is impressive for its scope and level of detailâ€ (The Wall Street Journal). Her â€œbrilliant book could not have been more timely, more well-researched, more well-written, or more necessaryâ€ (The American Scholar).
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781439131343
ReleaseDate 2018-04-24
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EANs 9781439131343

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781439131343
ReleaseDate	2018-04-24
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781439131343

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

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