Nancy Ammerman

Nancy Ammerman is Professor of Sociology of Religion at Boston University and has been writing about evangelicals since Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World (Rutgers University Press, 1987) and Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention (RUP, 1990). Her current research, funded by the Templeton Foundation, explores "Spiritual Narratives in Everyday Life."

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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Telling the old, old story

Just when we thought we knew what to expect from evangelicals, they seem to be changing again. After more than two decades of developing a public identity as loyal Republican “values voters”—replacing their earlier image as otherworldly, backwoods bible-thumpers—evangelicals seem determined to confound our social scientific wisdom again. Just who are these people? In spite of the difficulty of definition and the constantly shifting terrain, I want to argue that there is a “there” there, but it lies in the stories being told more than in any theological or demographic categories. [...]

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