Power, politics, and the fragmentation of evangelicalism : from the Scopes trial to the Obama administration / Kenneth J. Collins.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, �2012.Description: 299 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780830839797 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0830839798 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR 515 .C6435 2012
Contents:
Cultural shifts, the rise of Fundamentalism and the great reversal -- Fundamentalism, Neo-Evangelicalism and the search for power -- Evangelicals, the Religious Right and the moral life of the nation -- Evolution, intelligent design and the transformation of culture? -- The resurgence of the Evangelical Left -- Beyond ideology: the renewal of Catholicity and the challenges of a modern, liberal, democratic state -- Conclusion: What kind of power?
Summary: Kenneth J. Collins tells the narrative history of the political and cultural fortunes of American evangelicalism from the late nineteenth century through the contemporary era. He traces the establishment of the evangelical enterprise in American culture and its influences on the political and social values of the American landscape throughout the twentieth century, as well as its fragmentation into competing ideological camps. --from publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and indexes.

Cultural shifts, the rise of Fundamentalism and the great reversal -- Fundamentalism, Neo-Evangelicalism and the search for power -- Evangelicals, the Religious Right and the moral life of the nation -- Evolution, intelligent design and the transformation of culture? -- The resurgence of the Evangelical Left -- Beyond ideology: the renewal of Catholicity and the challenges of a modern, liberal, democratic state -- Conclusion: What kind of power?

Kenneth J. Collins tells the narrative history of the political and cultural fortunes of American evangelicalism from the late nineteenth century through the contemporary era. He traces the establishment of the evangelical enterprise in American culture and its influences on the political and social values of the American landscape throughout the twentieth century, as well as its fragmentation into competing ideological camps. --from publisher description.

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