A populist rebellion against the established churches, it became the dominant religious force in the country.ĭuring the nineteenth century white evangelicals split apart, first North versus South, and then, modernist versus fundamentalist. The evangelical movement began in the revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, known in America as the Great Awakenings. "We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided it" ( The New York Times Book Review). This "epic history" ( The Boston Globe) from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frances FitzGerald is the first to tell the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in America-from the Puritan era to the 2016 election. * Time magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year * Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award
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