For many Americans, both scholars and faith communities alike, one of the truly confounding tasks in contemporary settings, is how to define and categorize the nature and scope of American evangelicalism. Such a task is all the more complicated when one asks, “which” evangelicals—a nuance tethered to demographic considerations, namely along the lines of race, sex, and even shifting theological commitments. In light of this, this course has two goals: 1) introducing students to major markers of American evangelical thought and historical development; 2) interpreting the shifts of American evangelicalism as a feature of race relations and political arrangements in the 21st century.
Darrius D. HillsAuthor
Grinnell CollegeInstitution
Community College, Public College or University, Private College or University, Seminary Institution Type
Syllabus Resource Type
Intro, Undergraduate Course Class Type
2022 Date Published
Religious Studies, American Studies, History Discipline
Protestant Religous Tradition
Business/Capitalism/Labor, Class/Power, Empire/Foreign Policy/Globalism, Family/Children/Reproduction, Gender/Women/ Sexuality, Immigration/Refugees, Politics/Law/Government, Popular Culture/Media/Music/Sports, Pluralism/Secularism/Culture Wars, Race/Ethnicity, Nationalism/War/Civil Religion Topics