American Evangelicals: A Contemporary History of a Mainstream Religious Movement

by Barry Hankins

Book Overview

There may be no group in American society that is more talked about but so little understood as Evangelical Christians. Sometimes dismissed as violent fundamentalists and ignorant flat earthers, few can doubt the political, cultural, and religious significance of the Evangelicals. Barry Hankins puts the Evangelical movement in historical perspective, reaching back to its roots in the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century and leading up to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742570258
• ISBN13: 9780742570252
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"