Daryn Henry - Consuming Fire: A History of American Evangelicalism

This position will engage in research for my book, "Consuming Fire: A History of American Evangelicalism," an overview of that community’s interaction with American life from the First Great Awakening until today. This book harvests novel, textured scholarship from the past twenty years on the Evangelical community to construct a new synthetic narrative that emphasizes relatively understudied characters, episodes, dynamics, and organizations, as well as shifts the primary axis of interpretation from that of most previous surveys of American Evangelicals (politics) to that of trying to understand the movement as a distinctive religious culture in the American context. The research will make contributions to enhancing our understanding of and knowledge about American history, life, and thought and current cultural cleavages that we experience today.