Evangelicalism

=== Anglo America ===

==== United States ====
{{Main|Evangelicalism in the United States}}
[[File:Lancaster Baptist Church Main Auditorium.jpg|thumb|right|Worship service at the Baptist Church in [[Lancaster, California]]]]
[[File:BibleBelt.png|thumb|Socially conservative evangelical Protestantism plays a major role in the [[Bible Belt]], an area covering almost all of the Southern United States. Evangelicals form a majority in the region.]]
By the late 19th to early 20th century, most American Protestants were Evangelicals. A bitter divide had arisen between the more liberal-modernist mainline denominations and the fundamentalist denominations, the latter typically consisting of Evangelicals.  Key issues included the truth of the Bible—literal or figurative, and teaching of evolution in the schools.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Roger E. Olson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MBtFlW8vxuwC&pg=PA37 |title=The Westminster Handbook to Evangelical Theology |publisher=Westminster John Knox Press |year=2004 |isbn=9780664224646 |page=37}}</ref>

During and after World War II, Evangelicals became increasingly organized.  There was a great expansion of Evangelical activity within the United States, "a revival of revivalism". [[Youth for Christ]] was formed; it later became the base for [[Billy Graham]]'s revivals. The National Association of Evangelicals formed in 1942 as a counterpoise to the mainline Federal Council of Churches. In 1942–43, the Old-Fashioned Revival Hour had a record-setting national radio audience.{{Sfn|Carpenter|1999}}{{Rp|needed=yes|date=September 2013}}  With this organization, though, fundamentalist groups separated from Evangelicals.

According to a [[Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life]] study, Evangelicals can be broadly divided into three camps: traditionalist, centrist, and modernist.<ref name="nytimes">{{Cite news |last=Luo |first=Michael |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/weekinreview/16luo.html?_r=1&adxnnlx=1145227368-p%20hJwvCXS0qceSTw%20jLi8w&pagewanted=all |title=Evangelicals Debate the Meaning of 'Evangelical' |date=April 16, 2006 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> A 2004 Pew survey identified that while 70.4 percent of Americans call themselves "Christian", Evangelicals only make up 26.3 percent of the population, while Catholics make up 22 percent and mainline Protestants make up 16 percent.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://pewforum.org/publications/surveys/green-full.pdf |title=The American Religious Landscape and Political Attitudes: A Baseline for 2004 |last=Green |first=John C. |publisher=The Pew forum |type=survey |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304020453/http://pewforum.org/publications/surveys/green-full.pdf |archive-date=March 4, 2009}}</ref> Among the Christian population in 2020, mainline Protestants began to outnumber Evangelicals.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=July 16, 2021|title=The Unlikely Rebound of Mainline Protestantism|url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-unlikely-rebound-of-mainline-protestantism|access-date=July 19, 2021|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=July 15, 2021|title=New national survey flips the narrative on mainline Protestants and the 'nones,' but why?|url=https://baptistnews.com/article/new-national-survey-flips-the-narrative-on-mainline-protestants-and-the-nones-but-why/|access-date=July 19, 2021|website=Baptist News Global|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Mainline Protestantism is America's phantom limb|url=https://news.yahoo.com/mainline-protestantism-americas-phantom-limb-095209232.html|access-date=July 19, 2021|website=news.yahoo.com|date=July 17, 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref>

Evangelicals have been socially active throughout US history, a tradition dating back to the [[abolitionist]] movement of the [[Antebellum period]] and the [[Prohibition in the United States|prohibition]] movement.<ref>{{Citation |last=Clark |first=Norman H |title=Deliver Us from Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition |year=1976}}</ref> As a group, evangelicals are most often associated with the [[Christian right]]. However, a large number of [[Black Americans|black]] self-labeled Evangelicals, and a small proportion of liberal white self-labeled Evangelicals, gravitate towards the [[Christian left]].<ref name="heineman-god-conservative">Heineman, ''God is a Conservative'', pp 71–2, 173</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Shields |first=Jon A |title=The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right |pages=117, 121 |year=2009}}.</ref>

Recurrent themes within American Evangelical discourse include abortion,<ref name="Dudley2011">{{Cite book |last=Dudley |first=Jonathan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UHIWXheyNuEC |title=Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics |publisher=[[Crown Publishing Group]] |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-385-52526-8 |access-date=February 24, 2015}}.</ref> [[evolution denial]],<ref name="NCSE 2001">{{Cite book |url=http://ncse.com/taking-action/ten-major-court-cases-evolution-creationism |title=Ten Major Court Cases about Evolution and Creationism |publisher=National Center for Science Education |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-385-52526-8 |access-date=March 21, 2015}}.</ref> secularism,<ref>Heineman, Kenneth J. (1998). ''God is a Conservative: Religion, Politics and Morality in Contemporary America''. pp. 44–123. {{ISBN|978-0-8147-3554-1}}.</ref> and the notion of the United States as a [[Christian nation]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Dershowitz |first=Alan M |title=Blasphemy: how the religious right is hijacking our Declaration of Independence |page=121 |year=2007}}.</ref><ref>Smith, Christian (2002). ''Christian America?: What Evangelicals Really Want''. p. 207.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Limbaugh |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p7nNBpEIrtYC |title=Persecution: How Liberals are Waging War Against Christians |publisher=Regnery |year=2003 |isbn=0-89526-111-1}}</ref>