Chapter 29: "How Did We Get Here?" - Ryan T. Woods

In a time when religious tensions are reshaping national politics, religious historian Ryan T. Woods helps us answer urgent questions. What is an Evangelical? How did Evangelicalism evolve into what it is today? How was the Christian movement first perceived by the Romans? Why is Shirley Jackson like a pumpkin spice latte?

Books/Authors Mentioned:
// Christian Smith
// The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances Fitzgerald
// The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity by Robert Louis Wilken
// The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert Louis Wilken
// The Land We Are - edited by Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill and Sophie McCall
// Paranoia by Shirley Jackson
// The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
// The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel