Religion, Race, and American Evangelicalism

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.