Rather than continuing to conjecture about Trump’s most faithful constituency, what if observers of contemporary American Christianity asked a different…
Changing the frame: American evangelicalism in global perspective
Book blog
Scholars from varying disciplines engage in critical discussions of recent books. Additionally, scholars introduce their books with an original essay or, occasionally, an original essay reviews an important new book, connecting it to other threads of conversation in the academy and beyond.
You can read our very first book forum, on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age and the continued discussion around Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age here.
Making a scene
Bouteldja speaks to us like one of those books we need, one of these books that wake us up with…
Enchanted complicity
Could there be anything more American than flying to a remote and impoverished place with no goal other than a…
Solidarity as the undoing of white supremacy
Solidarity is, in fact, the modus operandus of her entire project. Solidarity is made for Bouteldja through connections that transgress…
The evangelicals abroad
The "international turn" of American evangelicalism constitutes one of the most distinctive dimensions of the resurgence of conservative Protestantism in…
Bordering the Kingdom
If the Kingdom of God has no borders, then this can be true only for those for whom borders do…
The world through American evangelical lenses
While most scholars, pollsters, and even the general public continue to envision American evangelicalism through its features permeating American politics…
At home in the world
McAlister aims for nothing less than a repositioning of the history of American evangelicalism, from an almost entirely domestic context…
United States religion in a transnational frame
How does McAlister’s account of religion and politics square with the prominent themes of contemporary developments?
Global evangelicalism unbound
Defining the boundaries of evangelicalism, always a difficult task, appears even more fraught at a time when (white) evangelicalism has…