
American Apocalypse
A History of Modern Evangelicalism
Matthew Avery Sutton(Author)
The Belknap Press
Published on 13. March 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-0-674-97543-9 (ISBN)
Description
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015
The first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, American Apocalypse shows how a group of radical Protestants, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it.
"The history Sutton assembles is rich, and the connections are startling."
-New Yorker
"American Apocalypse relentlessly and impressively shows how evangelicals have interpreted almost every domestic or international crisis in relation to Christ's return and his judgment upon the wicked...Sutton sees one of the most troubling aspects of evangelical influence in the spread of the apocalyptic outlook among Republican politicians with the rise of the Religious Right...American Apocalypse clearly shows just how popular evangelical apocalypticism has been and, during the Cold War, how the combination of odd belief and political power could produce a sleepless night or two."
-D. G. Hart, Wall Street Journal
"American Apocalypse is the best history of American evangelicalism I've read in some time...If you want to understand why compromise has become a dirty word in the GOP today and how cultural politics is splitting the nation apart, American Apocalypse is an excellent place to start."
-Stephen Prothero, Bookforum
The first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, American Apocalypse shows how a group of radical Protestants, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it.
"The history Sutton assembles is rich, and the connections are startling."
-New Yorker
"American Apocalypse relentlessly and impressively shows how evangelicals have interpreted almost every domestic or international crisis in relation to Christ's return and his judgment upon the wicked...Sutton sees one of the most troubling aspects of evangelical influence in the spread of the apocalyptic outlook among Republican politicians with the rise of the Religious Right...American Apocalypse clearly shows just how popular evangelical apocalypticism has been and, during the Cold War, how the combination of odd belief and political power could produce a sleepless night or two."
-D. G. Hart, Wall Street Journal
"American Apocalypse is the best history of American evangelicalism I've read in some time...If you want to understand why compromise has become a dirty word in the GOP today and how cultural politics is splitting the nation apart, American Apocalypse is an excellent place to start."
-Stephen Prothero, Bookforum
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
Harvard University Press
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
28 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
741 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-97543-9 (9780674975439)
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Person
Matthew Avery Sutton is Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of History at Washington State University.