Grant Wacker
American historian of religion
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- Bachelors Religion Duke University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Grant Albert Wacker is an American historian of Christianity in the United States. Education Wacker is a graduate of Stanford University and of Harvard University . Career Grant Wacker is the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Christian History at Duke Divinity School. He taught in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1977 to 1992. In 1992 he joined the faculty of Duke Divinity School, where he taught until he partly retired in 2015 and fully retired in 2018. A specialist in American Christian history, Wacker is the author or co-editor of nine books, including Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture , America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation , One Soul at a Time: The Story of Billy Graham , and more than two-hundred published articles, essays, and book reviews. He is past president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, past president of the American Society of Church History, a former senior editor of Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, and a senior trustee of Fuller Theological Seminary. He is an advisory editor of The Christian Century and Religion and American Culture. Along with three teaching awards, he directed twenty-six doctoral students at UNC or Duke.
Grant Wacker's Published Works
Published Works
- Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture (2001) (166)
- Religion in American Life: A Short History (2000) (62)
- The Functions of Faith in Primitive Pentecostalism (1984) (22)
- The Holy Spirit and the Spirit of the Age in American Protestantism, 1880-1910 (1985) (21)
- Pentecostal currents in American Protestantism (2000) (21)
- The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History (2010) (19)
- America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation (2014) (19)
- Marching to Zion: Religion in a Modern Utopian Community (1985) (17)
- Are the Golden Oldies Still Worth Playing? Reflections on History Writing among Early Pentecostals (1986) (15)
- Augustus H. Strong and the Dilemma of Historical Consciousness (1985) (15)
- Portraits of a Generation: Early Pentecostal Leaders (2004) (13)
- James McCosh and the Scottish Intellectual Tradition from Glasgow to Princeton. (1982) (12)
- Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming: American Premillennialism, 1875–1925. By Timothy P. Weber. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. vi + 232 pp. $14.95. (1980) (9)
- Travail of a Broken Family: Evangelical Responses to Pentecostalism in America, 1906–1916 (1996) (6)
- A Man of Books and a Man of the People: E.Y. Mullins and the Crisis of Moderate Southern Baptist Leadership (1985) (6)
- Billy Graham's America1 (2009) (5)
- The Holiness Revival of the Nineteenth Century . by Melvin Easterday Dieter. Studies in Evangelicalism 1. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press. 1980. x + 356 pp. $17.50. (1982) (3)
- Teaching the Introductory Course in American Religion (2002) (3)
- Pearl S. Buck and the Waning of the Missionary Impulse1 (2003) (2)
- God's Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission. By R. Marie Griffith. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii + 275 pp. $24.95 cloth. (1998) (2)
- All Things Are Possible: The Healing and Charismatic Revivals in Modern America. By David Edwin Harrell Jr Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975. xi + 304 pp. $10.95. (1976) (2)
- Recovering the Margins of American Religious History: The Legacy of David Edwin Harrell Jr. (2012) (2)
- Early Pentecostals and the Almost Chosen People (1997) (2)
- Christianity Appropriated: Conversion and the Intercultural Process (1999) (2)
- A Tar Heel Perspective on "The Third Disestablishment" (1991) (2)
- How America's God Became, Well, America's God (2003) (1)
- Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America. By David A. Hollinger. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 408 pp. $35.00 hardcover. (2019) (1)
- Popular Religion in America: Symbolic Change and the Modernization Process in Historical Perspective. By Peter W. Williams. Prentice-Hall Studies in Religion. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980. 258 pp. $7.95 paper (1981) (1)
- Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans. By R. Laurence Moore. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. xix + 243 pp. $22.95.) (1988) (0)
- CHH volume 70 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2001) (0)
- CHH volume 67 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1998) (0)
- Introduction (2003) (0)
- The New Christian Right: Mobilization and Legitimation . Edited by Robert C. Liebman and Robert Wuthnow. New York: Aldine Publishing Company, 1983. viii + 256 pp. $16.95. (1985) (0)
- Recovering the Margins of American Religious History (2012) (0)
- CHH volume 69 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2000) (0)
- Leaving Home and Finding Home: Theology and Practice of Ann Hasseltine Judson and the American Baptist Mission to Burma, 1812-1826 (2015) (0)
- Review of The Age of Evangelicalism (2017) (0)
- FOREWORD:: George Marsden as Scholar, Christian, and Friend (2014) (0)
- CHH volume 71 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (2002) (0)
- CHH volume 72 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2003) (0)
- Who Is an Evangelical?: The History of a Movement in Crisis. By Thomas S. Kidd (2020) (0)
- Living with Signs and Wonders: Parents and Children in Early Pentecostal Culture (2005) (0)
- CHH volume 76 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2007) (0)
- Brekus, Catherine A.Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013. $35.00 (cloth). (2014) (0)
- Theology Matters (Or Used To) (2004) (0)
- Book Review: The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907–1932 (1999) (0)
- CHH volume 70 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2001) (0)
- Note on Sources (2014) (0)
- CHH volume 76 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2007) (0)
- Reckoning with History: Richard Bushman, George Marsden, and the Art of Biography (2017) (0)
- Contributors (2005) (0)
- Billy Graham, Christian Manliness, and the Shaping of the Evangelical Subculture (2015) (0)
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