What made the Great Awakening great? / Harry S. Stout -- The evangelical encounter with the Enlightenment / Catherine A. Brekus -- Disestablishment as American Sisyphus / Jon Butler -- Antebellum reform / Richard Carwardine -- The rise of the domestic ideal in the United States and Canada / Marguerite Van Die -- The civil war and the making of conservative American evangelicalism / Luke E. Harlow -- The rise of fundamentalism / George M. Marsden -- Urban Pentecostalism: Chicago, 1906-1912 / Edith L. Blumhofer -- The Great Migration / Dennis C. Dickerson -- The global turn in American evangelicalism / Mark Hutchinson -- Billy Graham's 1949 Los Angeles revival / Grant Wacker -- Lausanne '74 and American evangelicalism's Latin turn / Darren Dochuk
Summary:
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. - from publisher.
