Overview
This comprehensive reference work brings together a diverse cross-section of established and emerging historians to explore the broad and deep history of Bible-believing, born-again Protestantism, and its dynamic impact on American life and society. The first part of this handbook features nine chronological chapters outlining the history and historiography of evangelicalism in the lands that became the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. In the second part, eighteen thematic chapters examine different aspects of evangelical history, including particular worship traditions within evangelicalism (such as Anabaptism and Pentecostalism); evangelical Christianity within diasporic communities (such as Asian Americans and Latinos/as); and the intersections of evangelicalism with other aspects of U.S. history—from consumer capitalism and pop culture to sexuality and foreign relations. Together, these deep, wide-ranging, and tempered readings of religious history seek to anchor conversations on evangelicalism in its fuller permutations: as an intellectual and ecclesiastical tradition, a political force, a social influence, and a cultural phenomenon. The Routledge History of Evangelical Christianity in America is an essential guide for scholars, graduate students, seminarians, advanced undergraduates in secular and religious universities, and general readers of American history interested in the current state of the field.
Full Product Details
Author: Darren Dochuk (University of Notre Dame, USA) ,
Ian E. Van Dyke (Grand Valley State University, USA)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.940kg
ISBN: 9781032695723
ISBN 10: 1032695722
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 27 January 2026
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
“This intelligently edited book makes an unusually effective contribution to untangling a dauntingly complex subject. It enlists younger as well as veteran contributors, explains why 'evangelicalism' can be defined as religion or as social movement (or both), positions American evangelicals against evangelicals elsewhere in the world, and illuminates both evangelical history and historiography about evangelicals. At a time of much heated debate about its subject, this Routledge history stands out as a beacon of light.” Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame (emeritus), USA “Is evangelicalism a theology, an aesthetic, a racial identity, a politics? Yes, answer the authors of this volume, it is almost all of those and not quite any of them. This volume assembles top scholars of American religion to offer a timely analysis of this divided and divisive tradition.” Alison Collis Greene, Candler School of Theology/Emory University, USA
Author Information
Darren Dochuk is Andrew V. Tackes College Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, where he also serves as William W. and Anna Jean Cushwa Co-Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. He teaches and writes widely on the history of religion, politics, energy, and environment in America. Ian E. Van Dyke is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, where he teaches courses on U.S., global, and religious history. He is currently working on his next book, Radical Disciples: Global Evangelicals, American Missionaries, and the Promise of Multicultural Christianity.
