Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

The Evangelicals : the struggle to shape America / Frances FitzGerald.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish Publication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: ix, 740 p. , 16 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781439131336 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781439131343 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: EvangelicalsDDC classification:
  • 277.3 23
LOC classification:
  • BR 1642 F553e 2017
Contents:
The great awakenings and the Evangelical empire -- Liberals and conservatives in the Post-Civil War North -- The fundamentalist-modernist conflict -- The separatists -- Billy Graham and modern evangelicalism -- Pentecostals and Southern Baptists -- Evangelicals in the sixties -- The fundamentalist uprising in the South -- Jerry Falwell and he moral majority -- Reagan and the South turns Republican -- The Evangelical thinkers -- Pat Robertson : politics and charismatic prophecies -- The Christian coalition and the Republican Party -- The Christian right and George W. Bush -- New Evangelicals -- The transformation of the Christian right.
Summary: 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 dramatically, first North versus South, and then at the end of the century, modernist versus fundamentalist. After World War II, Billy Graham, the revivalist preacher, 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, Pat Robertson, and other southern televangelists 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 of leaders protested the Christian right's close ties with the Republican Party and proposed a broader agenda of issues, such as climate change, gender equality, and immigration reform. Evangelicals have in many ways defined the nation. They have shaped our culture and our politics. 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso) BR 1642 F553e 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000127313

Includes bibliographical references (pages 701-710), glossary, and index.

The great awakenings and the Evangelical empire -- Liberals and conservatives in the Post-Civil War North -- The fundamentalist-modernist conflict -- The separatists -- Billy Graham and modern evangelicalism -- Pentecostals and Southern Baptists -- Evangelicals in the sixties -- The fundamentalist uprising in the South -- Jerry Falwell and he moral majority -- Reagan and the South turns Republican -- The Evangelical thinkers -- Pat Robertson : politics and charismatic prophecies -- The Christian coalition and the Republican Party -- The Christian right and George W. Bush -- New Evangelicals -- The transformation of the Christian right.


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 dramatically, first North versus South, and then at the end of the century, modernist versus fundamentalist. After World War II, Billy Graham, the revivalist preacher, 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, Pat Robertson, and other southern televangelists 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 of leaders protested the Christian right's close ties with the Republican Party and proposed a broader agenda of issues, such as climate change, gender equality, and immigration reform. Evangelicals have in many ways defined the nation. They have shaped our culture and our politics. 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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.