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The Evangelicals : the struggle to shape America /

FitzGerald, Frances, 1940-

The Evangelicals : the struggle to shape America / Frances FitzGerald. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - ix, 740 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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.

9781439131336 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781439131343 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2016025851


Evangelicalism--History.--United States
Fundamentalism--History.--United States
Christianity and politics--History.--United States


United States--Church history.

BR1642.U5 / F565 2017

277.3/08

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