REL-C330/R532, Spring 2025: Evangelical America

Professor: Dr. Brown, email: browncg@indiana.edu   

Course meetings: MW 9:35-10:50AM, Ballantine Hall (BH) 308

Office hours: MW 9:15-9:35AM BH 308; by appt.: https://iu.zoom.us/j/8122692710

Course-specific WTS tutor: Colby Townsend, https://wts.indiana.edu/tutoring/schedule-appointment.html

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? 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.