Welcome to Evangelical America!

REL-C330/REL-R532, Spring 2021

Professor: Dr. Candy Brown
Course meetings: MW 9:25AM-10:40AM at https://iu.zoom.us/j/8122692710

Office hours: M 10:45-11:30AM, and by appointment at https://iu.zoom.us/j/8122692710, or by phone:

+1 646 558 8656 or +1 669 900 6833: Meeting ID: 812 269 2710

E-mail: browncg@indiana.edu

From eighteenth-century Great Awakening revivals to twenty-first-century presidential campaigns, evangelicals—and 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—drawing upon fiction, poetry, autobiography, music, television, film, ethnography, and food. The course fulfills CASE A&H & DUS requirements.