American Evangelicals

Barry Hankins is professor of history and church-state studies at Baylor University. He is author of Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture and God's Rascal: J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of the Southern Fundamentalism.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Awakenings and the Beginning of American EvangelicalismChapter 1: The Struggle with Modernism: Origins of the Culture WarsChapter 2: Battling with Science: From Anti-Evolution to the Intelligent DesignChapter 3: Millennialism: Folk Religion and the Career of End-Times ProphecyChapter 4: Considering Equality: The Tradition of Gender, Race, and Gay RightsChapter 5: Inspired Politics: Evangelical Religion in the Political MarketplaceChapter 6: Back to the Academy: Evangelical Scholars and the American MindConclusionBibliography

[Hankins] draws from the best secondary sources to explicate the evangelical intersection with theological liberalism and the beginnings of fundamentalism. . . . Recommended.