Evangelical America: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Religious Culture

Edited by Dr Timothy J. Demy, Professor of Military Ethics, US Naval War College and Dr Paul R. Shockley, Professor of Bible and Theology, College of Biblical Studies-Houston, this encyclopedia provides insight into the evangelical movement in the USA from 1940 to 2016. The 545-page work, reviewed here in its e-book version, contains “[…] alphabetical entries for 193 topics covering ideas, individuals, institutions, controversies, publications, and American evangelicalism […]” (p. xvii).

A topical list of contents along with the preface, a four-page unsigned introduction to the subject, and a six-page chronology dating from 1941 to 2016, precede the A to...