evangelicalism

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/8/2022
  

  How the Evangelical Movement Embraced the Abortion Issue

  Kristin Kobes Du Mez discusses how Evangelical Christians came to drive the abortion debate in the US in the context of a backlash against feminism and a growing infrastructure of conservative voter mobilization.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/16/2022
  

  Buffalo Shooting Reflects Deeply Rooted American Ideas

  by Jesse Curtis

  Labeling the so-called "Great Replacement" a conspiracy theory obscures how closely it hews to commonplace American ideas about race, nation, and who is entitled to rule. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/5/2022
  

  What Binds Some American Evangelicals to Putin's Regime and War?

  by Bethany Moreton

  Russia's embrace of both religious nationalism and gender traditionalism makes many American evangelicals feel that Putin is their ally in a war against spiritual degeneracy. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/26/2022
  

  Capitol Attack Pushed Christian Nationalism to Center of Shifting Far-Right Movement

  Christian nationalism, particularly the sense that America's white, Christian identity is threatened, is a force uniting disparate strains of the far right and a potential bridge between extremists and millions of American Evangelicals, say scholars Kelly J. Baker and Anthea Butler. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  11/16/2021
  

  A Beautiful Mess: On “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”

  by Emily Suzanne Johnson

  "The people who made this film seem to care about its subject, but the film does not know itself well enough to be itself and love itself. Tammy Faye’s heart and soul just aren’t in it."

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• SOURCE: Current
  8/18/2021
  

  Megachurches like John MacArthur's Led Evangelical Resistance to COVID Mandates

  by John Fea

  Historian John Fea rounds up recent writing on the role of star pastors in directing some evangelical churches toward resistance to pandemic measures while other churches engaged with meeting their members' health needs. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/27/2021
  

  What We Believe About History

  by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

  "Understanding that beliefs have a history does not preclude a commitment to truths outside of history. But it does prompt believers to consider how historical forces and cultural allegiances may have shaped their own deeply held convictions."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/21/2021
  

  Breaking Evangelical Resistance to Coronavirus Vaccines will be Hard

  by Matthew Avery Sutton

  COVID vaccination documents are the latest phenomenon that Evangelicals have integrated into an apocalyptic reading of scripture. This means up to a quarter of the US population may need extensive convincing to take the vaccine. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3/16/2021
  

  The Post-Trump Crack-Up of the Evangelical Community

  Anthea Butler and Kristin Kobes Du Mez offer insight into how racial double standards within evangelical religion and the willingness of "insider" historians to craft a selective picture of evangelical political action has made it difficult to understand how many of today's evangelical leaders have made peace with (or even embraced) white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: Conference on Faith & History
  1/13/2020
  

  Resolution of the Conference on Faith and History: Executive Board Response to the Assault on the U.S. Capitol

  The global organization of scholars of the relationship between Christian faith and history has issued a statement condemning the Capitol riots as "a gross violation of the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ."

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1/14/2021
  

  The Capitol Riot Revealed the Darkest Nightmares of White Evangelical America

  by Matthew Avery Sutton

  Many observers have speculated that American evangelicals have had a transactional relationship with Donald Trump. But his messages of "American carnage" and warnings of dire consequences if he is defeated mesh perfectly with their end-times outlook and have helped tie evangelicals to the far right coalition. 

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• SOURCE: Patheos
  7/23/2020
  

  Os Guinness, Eric Metaxas, and Their Dangerous Myths of American History

  by Abram Van Engen

  "Only when we begin to see the multiplicity and complexity of history can we begin to understand how God moves in it and through it, and how we, in the present, can and should respond—righting wrongs and attempting to shine a light in dark places," writes Abram Van Engen.

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• 4/19/2020
  

  Evangelicals, Donald J. Trump, and the Making of the Tribune in Chief

  by Paul Croce

  Even Donald Trump's harshest critics would do well to understand his powerful appeal to white evangelical Christians instead of simply complaining about it. 

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• SOURCE: Patheos
  12/20/2018
  

  A contretemps over Phyllis Wheatley raises important issues about the ways historians communicate with the public

  by John Turner

  The question:  To what extent should non-academics defer to academic historians on matters of history?

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• 7-30-17
  

  What the Trump Presidency Reveals About American Christianity and Evangelicalism: An Interview with John Fea

  by Erik Moshe

  An interview with historian John Fea.

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• SOURCE: religiondispatches.org
  10-5-15
  

  When did polls became important tour understanding of American religion?

  by Robert Wuthnow (Interview)

  It was in 1976 when pollsters suddenly discovered the evangelical vote.

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• SOURCE: AlterNet
  5-13-15
  

  The Secret History of American Religion

  by Daniel Silliman

  Christian Fundamentalism Started As a Capitalist Ad Campaign

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• 12-7-14
  

  The Genius of American Evangelicalism

  by Matthew Avery Sutton

  Convinced that time’s running out, evangelicals intend to shake the world. They seek instant redemption, immediate transformation.

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• 6-8-14
  

  The Evangelical Renaissance Is Over

  by Steven P. Miller

  "In manifold ways, evangelicalism shaped the course of recent American history. Maybe we were all evangelicals, then."