EVANGELICAL AMERICA: 27420

Welcome to Evangelical America! (REL-C330   REL-R532   AMST-G620   Spring 2015)

From the Great Awakening to recent presidential campaigns, evangelicals—and in the last century Pentecostal and Charismatic movements within evangelicalism—have played a vital role in shaping American cultural, social, and political institutions. Who are evangelicals? What do they believe, and how do they behave? Should non-evangelicals be worried about them? This course explores the causes, nature, and implications of evangelical influence through the lenses of history, literature, and religious studies—paying attention to fiction, poetry, autobiography, music, television, film, ethnography, and food.