evangelicalism

Examples of evangelicalism in the following topics:

• Widespread Belief

  • That is, there are various denominations within Protestantism including Evangelicals, Methodists and Baptists.
  • One study categorizes white evangelicals, 26.3% of the population, as the country's largest religious cohort, while another study estimates evangelicals of all races at 30–35%.
  • Today, most Christian denominations in the United States are divided into three large groups: Evangelicalism, Mainline Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.
  • Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement.
  • In typical usage, the term mainline is contrasted with evangelical.

• Protestantism

  • Evangelicalism in Protestantism is difficult to both date and define.
  • Scholars have argued that, as a self-conscious movement, evangelicalism did not arise until the mid-17th century, perhaps not until the Great Awakening.
  • The fundamental premise of evangelicalism is that individuals can be converted, through preaching the Word, from a state of sin to a "new birth. " The Great Awakening refers to a northeastern Protestant revival movement that took place in the 1730s and 1740s.
  • The supporters of the Awakening and its evangelical thrust, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists, became the largest American Protestant denominations by the first decades of the 19th century.
  • The Christianity of the black population was grounded in evangelicalism.

• Religion and Other Social Factors

  • Emerson and Smith convincingly argue that white Evangelical Christians in the U.S., because of their belief in individualism, actually contribute to racial inequality.
  • This is the result of white Evangelicals refusing to see structural factors that contribute to inequality and their proclivity to blame poor blacks for their poverty.
  • White Evangelical Christians are more likely to attribute black/white inequality it to innate biological inferiority or laziness than are white Mainline Christians and the non-religious.
  • Further, archival research has revealed that opposition to the Civil Rights Movement - and especially the desegregation of schools - was one of the primary reasons (alongside lesbian/gay movements, women's rights movements, and abortion politics) for the rise of Evangelical movements like the Religious Right (in both politics and American society) in the 1970's and 1980's.
  • As such, scholars continue to attempt to ascertain what role "race" plays in the social construction of white Evangelical identities, movements, and political operations.

• An Overview of U.S. Values

  • Although It is also not necessarily a political idea, it has become associated with both the particular correlation between Evangelicalism and politics (as embodied by American politicians such as Ronald Reagan, Dan Quayle and George W.

• Socialization and Human Sexuality

  • For example, many evangelical Christians value abstinence and believe that men and women should wait until marriage to engage in sexual activity.

• The Church-Sect Typology

  • rely primarily on birth for membership increase, though it will also accept converts; some even actively pursue evangelization