Evangelicalism in America

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2019

Teaching Fellow under Professor Catherine Brekus

This course is an overview of American evangelicalism from the 1740s to the present. Beginning with the rise of transatlantic evangelicalism in the eighteenth century, we will explore the growing power of evangelicals after the American Revolution, the crisis caused by slavery, the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy in the early twentieth century, the emergence of Pentecostalism, the controversies created by neo-evangelicalism in the 1940s, the Civil Rights Movement, the charismatic movement, and evangelicalism today. Throughout the course, we will focus on the historical development of evangelicalism and the relationship between evangelicals and American culture.