![]() ![]() By the 1980s Jerry Falwell and other southern televangelists, such as Pat Robertson, had formed the Christian right. ![]() After World War II, Billy Graham, the revivalist preacher, attracted enormous crowds and tried to gather all Protestants under his big tent, but the civil rights movement and the social revolution of the sixties drove them apart again. ![]() A populist rebellion against the established churches, it became the dominant religious force in the country.ĭuring the nineteenth century white evangelicals split apart dramatically, first North versus South, and then at the end of the century, modernist versus fundamentalist. The evangelical movement began in the revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, known in America as the Great Awakenings. This groundbreaking book from Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Frances FitzGerald is the first to tell the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in Americafrom the Puritan era to the 2016 presidential election. ![]()
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