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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: γ̐ư2012 Publisher: Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (299 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781461942870
  • 146194287X
  • 0830863397
  • 9780830863396
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Power, politics, and the fragmentation of evangelicalismDDC classification:
  • 277.3/082 23
LOC classification:
  • BR515 .C6435 2012
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  • online - EBSCO
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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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)637968

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.

Print version record.