Welcome to Evangelical America!

REL-C330/REL-R532, Spring 2022

Professor: Dr. Candy Brown
Course meetings: MW 9:45AM-11:00AM at Ballantine Hall (BH) 304

Office hours: Wednesdays 8:15-9:00AM or by appointment; email to alert me—meet at https://iu.zoom.us/j/8122692710

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.