Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory

Randall Balmer earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1985 and taught as Professor of American Religious History at Columbia University for twenty-seven years before becoming the Mandel Family Professor of Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth College in 2012. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, Yale, Northwestern, and Emory universities and in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He was a visiting professor at Yale Divinity School from 2004 to 2008.His op-ed articles have appeared in newspapers across the country, including the Los Angeles Times, the Des Moines Register, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Dallas Morning News, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Hartford Courant, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the Anchorage Daily News, and the New York Times. Dr. Balmer has published more than a dozen books, including God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush .

• Contents ; Acknowledgments ; A Word About Words ; Prologue ; 1. California Kickback ; 2. Dallas Orthodoxy ; 3. On Location ; 4. Pheonix Prophet ; 5. Adirondack Fundamentalism ; 6. Georgia Charismatics ; 7. Bible School ; 8. Campaign Journal ; 9. Mississippi Missions ; 10. Bible Bazaar ; 11. Episcopal Indians ; 12. Camp Meeting ; 13. City Crusade ; 14. Oregon Jeremiad ; 15. Prime Time ; 16. Sound Check ; 17. Kinkade Crusade ; 18. Purpose Driven ; 19. ; Afterword ; Epilogue ; Notes

For more than two decades, historians of religion like Randall Balmer, Joel A. Carpenter, and Mark A. Noll had been exploring these dimensions of American Christianity. Balmer's now classic Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America (1989), which explored a variety of evangelical movements and communities in a way that both historicized and personalized each, has been especially influential, reaching far beyond the rather narrow audience of American scholars of religion.