Uta A. Balbier, Altar Call in Europe: Billy Graham, Mass Evangelism, and the Cold-War West.

Whereas most studies of Reverend Billy Graham focus on his American evangelism, historian Uta Balbier presents Graham’s American Crusades as part of a shared transnational religious movement which also included the United Kingdom and Germany. She successfully synthesizes American-style consumerism,...

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Julkaisussa:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas,
Päätekijä: Wilson, Ian S.
Aineistotyyppi: Article ou chapitre numérique
Kieli:Anglais
Julkaistu: European journal of American studies 2023
Linkit:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Yhteenveto:Whereas most studies of Reverend Billy Graham focus on his American evangelism, historian Uta Balbier presents Graham’s American Crusades as part of a shared transnational religious movement which also included the United Kingdom and Germany. She successfully synthesizes American-style consumerism, Cold War tensions, and evangelical revivalism by studying them in a trans-Atlantic, Cold War milieu. In the process she also reveals the continuous, mostly European tension between Graham’s reviva...