That Old-Time Religion in Modern America

That Old-Time Religion in Modern America Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century D.G. HartIvan R. Dee, 2002ISBN 9781566634595 Softcover, 246 pp.6.56 X 8.24 X 0.78 inches | 0.66 pounds Many Americans commonly associate evangelical Protestants with the scoldings of the religious right and solicitations of money by televangelists. Whether or not these associations are particularly flattering, it is true that a concern for preserving a moral social order as well as an unrelenting desire to make new converts are traits that have defined evangelicalism throughout American history. In this cogent account, D. G. Hart unpacks evangelicalism's current reputation by tracing its development over the course of the twentieth century. He shows how evangelicals entered the century as full partners in the Protestant denominations and agencies that molded American cultural and intellectual life. Although the fundamentalist controversy of the 1920s marginalized evangelicals in America's larges