Global Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism is not merely a North American religiously charged ideology that dominates the popular mind. Over the last century, evangelicalism has taken on global proportions. It has spread from its northern heartlands and formed burgeoning new centers of vibrant life in the global South. Alongside Islam, it is now arguably the most important and dynamic religious movement in the world today. This tectonic shift has been closely watched by some scholars of religion, though it is merely a ghost in our international news stories. Now, in Global Evangelicalism a gathering of front-rank historians of evangelicalism offer conceptual and regional overviews of evangelicalism, as well as probings of its transdenominationalism and views of gender.

Richard V. Pierard (1934-2025) was professor of history at Indiana State University and later filled the Stephen Phillips Chair of History at Gordon College. A noted evangelical historian, he has published many works, including (with Thomas A. Askew) The American Church Experience and (with Robert D. Linder) Civil Religion and the Presidency

Donald M. Lewis is professor of church history at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada. His published works include the two-volume Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, 1730-1860, which he edited, and The Origins of Christian Zionism. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.