Modern Evangelicalism in the United States (HA)

Subject associations
REL 254
Term
Fall 2021
Instructors
Wallace D. Best
Registrar description

This course will trace the history of American Evangelicalism from its roots in the early nineteenth century to rise of the Religious Right in the 1980s and birth of "right wing politics" of the twenty-first century. We will note key figures, events, and institutional expressions of evangelicalism, as well as its large impact on American politics and popular culture.