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  • Jesus and Gin

    Evangelicalism, the Roaring Twenties and Today's Culture Wars

    by Barry Hankins ...
    Jesus and Gin is a rollicking tour of the roaring twenties and the barn- burning preachers who led the temperance movement—the anti-abortion crusade of the Jazz Age. Along the way, we meet a host of colorful characters: a Baptist minister who commits adultery in the White House; media star preachers caught in massive scandals; a presidential election hinging on a religious issue; and ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • God's Rascal

    J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism

    by Barry Hankins ...
    Series series America's Baptists
    Loathed by mainstream Southern Baptists, J. Frank Norris (1877–1952) was in many ways the Southern Baptist Convention’s first fundamentalist. Twenty-five years after its first publication, this second edition of Barry Hankins’s field-defining work God’s Rascal: J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism engages new scholar- ship on American fundamentalism to reassess one of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Woodrow Wilson

    Ruling Elder, Spiritual President

    by Barry Hankins ...
    Series series Spiritual Lives
    When Woodrow Wilson was elected as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1897, his preacher father allegedly remarked, "I would rather that he held that position than be president of the United States." Fifteen years later he was both. Easily one of the most religious presidents in American history, almost all of Wilson's policies and important speeches were infused with religious concepts. ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Uneasy in Babylon

    Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture

    by Professor Barry Hankins ...
    Series series Religion and American Culture
    The definitive account of how conservative Southern Baptists came to dominate the nation's largest Protestant denominationIn 1979 a group of conservative members of the Southern Baptists Convention (SBC) initiated a campaign to reshape the denomination’s seminaries and organizations by installing new conservative leaders who made belief in the inerrancy of the Bible a condition of service. They ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Through a Glass Darkly

    Contested Notions of Baptist Identity

    by James A. Patterson, Christopher H. Evans, Alan Scot Willis, Barry Hankins, Jewel L. Spangler, Curtis W. Freeman, Elizabeth H. Flowers, Edward R. Crowther, John Gordon Crowley, Paul Harvey, Dr. James P. Byrd2, Dr. Bill J. Leonard3 ...
    Series series Religion and American Culture
    Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.In contemporary discussions of religious denominations, it is often fashionable and easy to make bold claims regarding the history, beliefs, and practices of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Baptists in America

    A History

    by Thomas S Kidd, Barry G Hankins ...
    The Puritans called Baptists "the troublers of churches in all places" and hounded them out of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four hundred years later, Baptists are the second-largest religious group in America, and their influence matches their numbers. They have built strong institutions, from megachurches to publishing houses to charities to mission organizations, and have firmly established ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Baptists in America

    A History

    by Thomas S Kidd, Barry G Hankins ...
    The Puritans called Baptists "the troublers of churches in all places" and hounded them out of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four hundred years later, Baptists are the second-largest religious group in America, and their influence matches their numbers. They have built strong institutions, from megachurches to publishing houses to charities to mission organizations, and have firmly established ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • American Denominational History

    Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future

    by Amy Koehlinger, David J. Whittaker, Paul Harvey, Dr. Keith Harper, Dr. Randall J Stephens, Ms. Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait, Dr. Barry Hankins, Sean Michael Lucas, Ms. Margaret Bendroth ...
    Series series Religion and American Culture
    Brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literatureFruitful questions that are posed by the positions and experiences of the various groups are carefully examined. American Denominational History points the way for the next decade of scholarly effort. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

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  • The Color of Christ

    The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America

    by Edward J. Blum, Paul Harvey ...
    How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey weave a tapestry of American dreams and visions — from witch hunts to web pages, Harlem to Hollywood, slave cabins to South Park, Mormon revelations to Indian ... Read more

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  • American Gospel

    God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation

    by Jon Meacham ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham presents “a nimble examination of how American leaders . . . have wrestled with God personally and publicly” (USA Today)—now featuring a new Afterword by the author“A revealing and useful primer on an important, timely, and often volatile topic.”—Chicago TribuneAt a time when our country seems divided by extremism, American ... Read more

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  • Liberty of Conscience

    In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality

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