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A remarkably robust collection. . . . These authors take evangelicals seriously . . . as integral components of American society. Journal of American History The book aptly moves conversations surrounding modern evangelism beyond generalities, and encourages more thoughtful considerations of what religious conservatives were actually thinking and doing during America s great decade of social transformation. ForeWord Reviews A particularly effective effort to enlighten the general public, problematize stereotypes, and deepen understanding. It makes a substantial contribution to both religious and sociopolitical history. Mark Noll, coeditor of Religion and American Politics A rich and provocative reinterpretation of American evangelicalism in the decades after World War II. These essays upset conventional wisdom about the ways that American evangelicals responded to the American civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, the Vietnam War, and the Great Society. John G. Turner, author of Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ The book aptly moves conversations surrounding modern evangelism beyond generalities, and encourages more thoughtful considerations of what religious conservatives were actually thinking and doing during America's great decade of social transformation. -- ForeWord Reviews

The book aptly moves conversations surrounding modern evangelism beyond generalities, and encourages more thoughtful considerations of what religious conservatives were actually thinking and doing during America s great decade of social transformation. ForeWord Reviews

A particularly effective effort to enlighten the general public, problematize stereotypes, and deepen understanding. It makes a substantial contribution to both religious and sociopolitical history. --Mark Noll, coeditor of Religion and American Politics

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Axel R. Schäfer is director of the David Bruce Centre for American Studies at Keele University in the United Kingdom. He is author of Countercultural Conservatives: American Evangelicalism from the Postwar Revival to the New Christian Right and Piety and Public Funding: Evangelicals and the State in Modern America.

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