Lucid, authoritative overview of a major movement in American history The history of American evangelicalism is perhaps best understood by examining itsturning points those moments when it took on a new scope, challenge, or influence. The Great Awakening, the rise of fundamentalism and Pentecostalism, the emergence of Billy Graham all these developments and many more have given shape to one of the most dynamic movements in American religious history. Taken together, these turning points serve as a clear and helpful roadmap for understanding how evangelicalism has become what it is today. Each chapter in this book has been written by one of the world's top experts in American religious history, and together they form a single narrative of evangelicalism's remarkable development. Here is an engaging, balanced, coherent history of American evangelicalism from its origins as a small movement to its status as a central player in the American religious story.__Contributors & TopicsHarry S. Stout__onthe Great Awakening__Catherine A. Brekus__onthe evangelical encounter with the Enlightenment__Jon Butler__ondisestablishment__Richard Carwardine__onantebellum reform__Marguerite Van Die__onthe rise of the domestic ideal__Luke E. Harlow__onthe Civil War and conservative American evangelicalism__George M. Marsden__onthe rise of fundamentalism__Edith Blumhofer__onurban Pentecostalism__Dennis C. Dickerson__onthe Great Migration__Mark Hutchinson__onthe global turn in American evangelicalism__Grant Wacker__onBilly Graham's 1949 Los Angeles revival__Darren Dochuk__onAmerican evangelicalism's Latin turn"