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Evangelist - ĭvănˈjəlĭst [Gr.,=Gospel], title given to saints Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The four evangelists are often symbolized respectively by a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle, on the basis of Rev. 4.6–10. In modern times the term is applied to Protestant preachers who go about preaching personal conversion. The greatest


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    Popular Religion in America: The Evangelical Voice » Read Now

    by Erling Jorstad. 226 pgs.

    Jorstad attributes the enormous growth of evangelicalism to its ability to blend with American popular culture. He argues that the evangelical movement was able to integrate populist, democratic traditions with a cultural inclusiveness, a mastery of modern technology, and a willingness to use mass...
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    Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s » Read Now

    by D. W. Bebbington. 370 pgs.

    This major textbook is a newly researched historical study of Evangelical religion in its British cultural setting from its inception in the time of John Wesley to charismatic renewal today.The Church of England, the Church of Scotland and the variety of Nonconformist denominations and sects in...
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    Fundamentalism and Evangelicals » Read Now

    by Harriet A. Harris. 384 pgs.

    This study examines the contentious claim that much evangelicalism is fundamentalist in character. Within Protestantism, the term "fundamentalism" denotes not only a movement but also a mentality which has greatly affected evangelicals, and which involves preserving as factual a reading of scripture...
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    Who Were the Evangelicals? Conservative and Liberal Identity in the Unitarian Controversy in Boston, 1804-1833, in Journal of Social History » Read Now

    by Cayton, Marie Kuplec. 1 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...Curtis Johnson warns us in his study of evangelicalism in rural upstate New York, however...Awakening at our peril.(3) Although evangelicalism in the first third of the...
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    Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective » Read Now

    by David N. Livingstone, D. G. Hart, Mark A. Noll. 351 pgs.

    Comprising papers by such distinguished scholars as John Headley Brooke, James R. Moore, Ronald Numbers, and George Marsden, this collection shows that questions of science have been central to evangelical history in the United States, as well as in Britain and Canada. It is an invaluable resource...
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    Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 » Read Now

    by Ted Ownby. 286 pgs.

    In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby contends that the everyday cultural lives of rural white Southerners in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolved around these two opposing complexes of attitudes.
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    God's Man for the Gilded Age: D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism » Read Now

    by Bruce J. Evensen. 232 pgs.

    At his death on the eve of the 20th century, D.L. Moody was widely recognized as one of the most beloved and important of men in 19th-century America. A Chicago shoe salesman with a fourth grade education, Moody rose from obscurity to become God's man for the Gilded Age. He was the Billy Graham of...
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    Standing Against the Whirlwind: Evangelical Episcopalians in Nineteenth-Century America » Read Now

    by Diana Hochstedt Butler. 274 pgs.

    Standing Against the Whirlwind is a history of the Evangelical party in the Episcopal Church in nineteenth-century America. A surprising revisionist account of the church's first century, it reveals the extent to which evangelical Episcopalians helped to shape the piety, identity, theology, and...
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    Domestic Biography: The Legacy of Evangelicalism in Four Nineteenth-Century Families » Read Now

    by Christopher Tolley. 290 pgs.

    This is a fascinating account of the influence of evangelicalism upon eminent Victorians. Recording family life was an important ritual in Victorian households, and out of this habit grew a new literary genre, the domestic biography, extolling individual piety and domestic virtue. Using documents...
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    The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, 1785-1865 » Read Now

    by Boyd Hilton. 414 pgs.

    In this study of the British upper and middle classes during the first half of the 19th century, Boyd Hilton reveals that the people of this age were obsessed with catastrophe: wars, famines, pestilences, revolutions, floods, volcanoes, and the great commercial upheavals which periodically...
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    Fathers of the Victorians: The Age of Wilberforce » Read Now

    by Ford K. Brown. 569 pgs.

    ...High Church side were offset, as Evangelicalism gathered numbers, by energy, Christian...could have been done, Hannah More, Evangelicalisms greatest publicist, wisely...
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    Televangelism: The Marketing of Popular Religion » Read Now

    by Razelle Frankl. 208 pgs.

    ...control over the world by supporting evangelicalism. The belief was that if all sinners...the old post-millennial outlook of Evangelicalism for a premillennial one . . ...
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    The Political Mobilization of Religious Beliefs » Read Now

    by Ted G. Jelen. 194 pgs.

    Jelen's study asks two basic questions: Why do some people apply their religious beliefs to their political behavior, and what are the consequences of politicized Christianity for the practice of democracy in the United States? Supportive data for his findings, collected from the members and clergy...

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