American Evangelicals Today
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4422-1729-4 (ISBN)
American Evangelicals Today is designed to serve as an accessible, but scholarly, overview of American evangelicals, one that is appealing to all scholars, students, and laity alike. Smidt offers a discussion of the nature of evangelical Protestantism, highlights the particular analytical issues at play when one seeks to determine just who are to be classified as evangelicals, and reveals some of the contradictory findings that can emerge through the use of these different analytical frameworks for defining evangelicals. The volume not only analyzes the current characteristics of evangelicals in light of those exhibited by other religious traditions as well as how evangelicals have changed over time, but it looks toward the future, addressing generational differences and other possible factors for change among evangelical Protestants.
Corwin E. Smidt is professor emeritus of political science at Calvin College, where he also served as the director of the Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics for fifteen years. Smidt is the author or editor of numerous books, including In God We Trust?: Religion and American Political Life and The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics, and currently serves as a Research Fellow with the Henry Institute.
Introduction: When Morning Gilds the Sky? Evangelicals in Contemporary American Society
1: Oh God, Our Help in Ages Past? The Evangelical Tradition in American Religious Life
2: Seek and You Shall Find? The Bases of Analyzing Evangelicals Today
3: Let the Weak Say I am Strong? The Size and Social Characteristics of Evangelicals
4: How Firm a Foundation? The Theological Beliefs and Behavior of Evangelicals
5: Living for Jesus? The Social Theology of Evangelicals
6: They Will Know We are Christians by our Love? The Civic Life of Evangelicals
7: We’re Marching to Zion? The Politics of Evangelicals
8: In the Sweet By and By? Evangelicals and the Future
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Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.5.2013 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 153 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 544 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4422-1729-4 / 1442217294 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4422-1729-4 / 9781442217294 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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