American Apocalypse : : A History of Modern Evangelicalism / / Matthew Avery Sutton.

The first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, American Apocalypse shows how a group of radical Protestants, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it. Matthew Avery Sutton draws on extensive archival research to document the ways a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (420 p.) :; 28 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • Prologue
  • 1. Jesus Is Coming
  • 2. Global War and Christian Nationalism
  • 3. The Birth of Fundamentalism
  • 4. The Culture Wars Begin
  • 5. American Education on Trial
  • 6. Seeking Salvation with the GOP
  • 7. The Rise of the Tyrants
  • 8. Christ's Deal versus the New Deal
  • 9. Reviving American Exceptionalism
  • 10. Becoming Cold Warriors for Christ
  • 11. Apocalypse Now
  • Epilogue
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index