Hunter, James Davison, 1955-,

American evangelicalism : conservative religion and the quandary of modernity / [print] James Davison Hunter. - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)1983. - xi, 171 pages ; 24 cm.



Definitions and perspectives -- Religion and modernity : a sociology-of-knowledge approach -- History of a world view, 1890 to the present -- A demographic profile -- Beliefs and practices -- Accommodation : the domestication of belief -- Resistances : public piety and politization -- Legitimation : the problem of projection -- The ambivalence of orthodoxy in contemporary America -- Appendix 1 : operationalizing evangelicalism -- Appendix 2 : methodological strategies.



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Evangelicalism--History--United States--20th century.

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