Article: A Transforming Faith: Explorations of Twentieth-Century American Evangelicalism.

When evangelicals became a politically prominent group in the 1970s, it seemed to many observers that evangelicalism had emerged from a half-century of cultural isolation. Evangelicals, like fundamentalists up to this point, had seemed to be an entrenched cultural group cut off from changes in American society. Contrary to these perceptions, Watt illustrates how evangelicalism was not culturally and theologically "frozen" from 1925 (the year of the Scopes trial) to 1976 (when Jimmy Carter was elected President) but was, instead, a subculture in transition. Rather than entrenching, evangelicals throughout this period were accommodating to the culture.

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