REL-C330/R532, Spring 2023: Evangelical America

Professor: Dr. Brown, email: browncg@indiana.edu   
Course meetings: MW 9:45-11:00AM, Wylie Hall (WY) 101

Office hours: M 8:15-9:15AM, Sycamore Hall (SY) 327

Zoom: https://iu.zoom.us/j/8122692710 (Please schedule by email.)

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.