Categories: American Religion, Dispensationalism, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Modernity, Religion/culture – Posted on December 17, 2012 Hal Lindsey, “The Late Great Planet Earth” (1970) This generation will probably witness the end of the world. My used copy of Hal Lindsey’s The Late Great Planet … Continue reading >Hal Lindsey, “The Late Great Planet Earth” (1970)
Categories: American Religion, Dispensationalism, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Jewish-Christian Relations – Posted on November 3, 2012 Yaakov Ariel, Evangelizing the Chosen People (2000) Yaakov Ariel, Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880-2000. (2000) Yaakov Ariel’s Evangelizing the Chosen People … Continue reading >Yaakov Ariel, Evangelizing the Chosen People (2000)
Categories: American Religion, Evangelicalism, Religious Right – Posted on October 30, 2012 Charles Colson, Born Again (1976, 2008) Charles Colson’s Born Again presents a paradigmatic “faith story” of 1970s evangelicalism—with a few twists. Here we get the inveterate … Continue reading >Charles Colson, Born Again (1976, 2008)
Categories: American Religion, Dispensationalism, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism – Posted on October 28, 2012 Paul Boyer, “When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture” (1992) Paul Boyer, When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (1992) It’s hard to imagine myself … Continue reading >Paul Boyer, “When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture” (1992)
Categories: American Religion, Dispensationalism, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Religious Right – Posted on October 26, 2012 Matthew Avery Sutton, “Was FDR the Antichrist? The Birth of Fundamentalist Antiliberalism in a Global Age.” Matthew Avery Sutton, “Was FDR the Antichrist? The Birth of Fundamentalist Antiliberalism in a Global Age,” Journal of American History … Continue reading >Matthew Avery Sutton, “Was FDR the Antichrist? The Birth of Fundamentalist Antiliberalism in a Global Age.”
Categories: American Religion, Evangelicalism, Religion/media, Theories of Religion – Posted on October 23, 2012 John Lardas Modern, “Secularism in Antebellum America” Steam engines. Conversions. Inmates. Tracts. Networks. Vibrations. A white whale. Modern’s exciting book on antebellum secularism wends through Moby-Dick, evangelical … Continue reading >John Lardas Modern, “Secularism in Antebellum America”
Categories: American Religion, Anthropology of Christianity, Anthropology of Religion, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Jerry Falwell, Religious Right – Posted on October 8, 2012 Susan F. Harding, The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics Susan F. Harding. The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics. Princeton, 2000. Susan Harding’s masterful study locates language … Continue reading >Susan F. Harding, The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics
Categories: American Religion, Evangelicalism – Posted on October 3, 2012 Christine Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt Christine Heyrman. Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt. UNC Press, 1997. Review by A.T. Coates. Heyrman’s Southern Cross … Continue reading >Christine Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt