...This chapter examines the place occupied by women in narrative histories of the Enlightenment in America. Drawing on recent scholarship connecting the rise of evangelicalism in the eighteenth century to enlightened thought, it argues that women's history changes many assumptions about...

...This chapter focuses on the reason for Reinhold Niebuhr's separation from the masses. In 1928 he had left his ministry at Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit for Union, the nation's premier seminary. As his career advanced, moreover, he routinely associated with other academic superstars...

...This introductory chapter briefly explores the emergence of the Primitive Baptist movement between the 1820s and 1850s. Primitive Baptists in the antebellum South struggled not only with missionary adversaries but with a set of beliefs that placed them at odds both with their fellow evangelicals...

... in the late 1920s and 1930s, as the precipitous decline of both the YMCA and the Student Volunteer Movement created an opening for a new evangelical campus ministry. It reasserted evangelical verities, including the inspiration of Scripture, the deity of Christ, and his vicarious sacrifice. Given...

... in Los Angeles and the summer training grounds on Lake Minnetonka in Mound, Minnesota. Bill Bright remained an evangelical entrepreneur, launching ministries in Asia and Latin America, beginning an evangelistic ministry to American laypeople, and experimenting with evangelism through various forms...

...This book is about the interactions between antebellum black and white Virginians who identified themselves across vast chasms of power as evangelical Protestants. It seeks to connect the two aforementioned truths: that it was evangelical whites who built the strongest defense of slavery...

...This chapter illustrates how politicians and evangelical clergymen pulled the country in different directions in the years between the War of 1812 and the Southampton Insurrection in 1831. Representatives of slave and free-labor regimes competed in Congress for access to western lands and, in 1819...

...This book provides a history of the diverse, small, and yet dynamic progressive evangelical Christianity native to the United States. Focusing on the religious and politically inclined evangelical groups that emerged in the 1960s, prior to the rise of today's far larger and more visible Christian...

... related to slavery embroiling Great Britain at the time—one concerning the Free Church of Scotland, the other concerning the Evangelical Alliance. Buffum James N Evangelical Alliance Free Church of Scotland Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Christianity and religious hypocrisy British...

...This chapter discusses the tidal wave of evangelical revivalism that swept through England in the summer of 1739. George Whitefield had returned from America and was preaching to huge crowds in the open air, moving them to tears with his wondrous oratory while embarrassing his stodgy orthodox...

... Evangelical American Christians and Israel. Although Israel in the 1940s was identified as a cause of the American left, by the 1980s, sympathies more significantly aligned with the American right. The author’s own experiences and relationship to Israel as a New York City-born Jew are also introduced...

...This chapter traces the early life of Dwight L. Moody, the rise of evangelical realism, and his role in developing modern evangelicalism through ideas of Christian work. He was born in 1837, the sixth child of Betsey and Edwin Moody in Northfield, Massachusetts. Raised outside traditional...

...This chapter traces the developing crisis of evangelical realism in the 1890s caused by radical evangelicals, the scandal at the Moody Bible Institute involving the faith healer John Alexander Dowie, and new strategies of interpreting the Bible developed to counter that challenge. Moody's pragmatic...

... Hyun Paik. The chapter argues that Korean agency as well as transpacific ideas of race were core to the rise of US evangelical humanitarian organizations like World Vision during the Cold War era. Cold War Han Kyung Chik Korean War Pierce Bob World Vision World War II atheism communism Dead Men...

... not receive the privileges of the well off, and they were frustrated at the new southern society. If race remained an enduring theme, so did religion. Evangelical Protestantism still dominated the South, and a conservative religion became a political force through the New Religious Right after 1980. The term...

... Left slogans and symbols and discusses how plausible deniability under the guise of college humor helped conceal their white supremacy. It details how the Right strategically captured moderate College Republican clubs and student government associations, as well as evangelical student organizations...

...This chapter describes how Nat Turner forced Virginia's white evangelicals to rethink their relationship with their black brethren and set in motion a chain of events that caused them to rethink their relationship with their codenominationalists in the North. In response to the insurrection...

...This chapter illustrates how Virginia's white evangelicals helped start a regionwide campaign for slave missions when Nat Turner compelled them to rethink the relationship between slavery and evangelicalism. In the years following the Southampton Insurrection, southern whites traded strategies...

... rights, and the appropriateness of Friends participating in worldly (that is, cross-denominational) social movements. Locally, antislavery efforts were led by local blacks and by white evangelicals. Amy signed her first antislavery petition in 1837; and she and Isaac attended antislavery conventions...