![]() Interestingly, FitzGerald describes her work as the history of white evangelical movements (3), and begins this history with the First Great Awakening. FitzGerald’s work seeks to be the definitive historical work on evangelicals, a group that continues to shock, confuse, and rankle outsiders, political observers, and journalists. Published in April of 2017, this work begins in the fervent American religious revivals of the First and Second Great Awakening and closes in the myopic 2016 presidential election. ![]() Signified by a belief in the concept of spiritual rebirth, or being “born-again” and a priority to “spread the gospel” FitzGerald shares her definition with faith leaders such as Billy Graham and religious historians such as George Marsden. ![]() In her latest work, The Evangelicals, Pulitzer Prize winning author Frances FitzGerald charts the history and influence of that “most American of religious groups” (2). ![]()
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