Open AccessBook Review: Evangelical America: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Religious Culture
Author(s) -
Garrett Trott
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.58.1.6854
Subject(s) - encyclopedia , variety (cybernetics) , christianity , culture of the united states , evangelism , sociology , religious studies , theology , political science , philosophy , law , computer science , artificial intelligence
Timothy Denny and Paul Shockley provide an excellent collection of entries related to evangelical Christianity in America in their work entitled Evangelical America: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Religious Culture. Denny and Shockley begin this work with an insightful introduction. The editors aim “to provide readers with information on some of the prominent individuals, institutions and ideas of the movement in the past 75 years” (p. xvii). While Evangelical America does not intend to be exhaustive, it is thorough, providing insight on a variety of distinct facets of American evangelicalism.