Blessed assurance : a history of evangelicalism in America / Randall Balmer.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Balmer, Randall Herbert
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [1999], ©1999.
Subjects:
Evangelicalism > United States > History.
Physical Description:139 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: a city on a hill
  • Challenging the routine of religion: eighteenth-century pietism and the evangelical tradition
  • Diversity and stability: the paradox of religious pluralism
  • Visions of rapture: optimism and apocalypticism in American culture
  • A pentecost of politics: evangelicals and public discourse
  • A loftier position: American evangelicalism and the ideal of femininity
  • Winning the country back: the ironies of the religious right
  • The vocabulary of evangelicalism.