Background
Watt, David Harrington was born on August 5, 1957 in Louisville. Son of Raymond Dewey Junior and Elise (Miller) Watt.
( Over the course of the twentieth century, evangelicals ...)
Over the course of the twentieth century, evangelicals have in a variety of ways adjusted their world view to accommodate the changes in modern life. At the same time, there are important continuities between the ideas and attitudes of evangelicals in the 1920s and those of the late 1970s. Little attention has actually been paid to changes in this important social and political group since the Scopes trial and the election of 1976, when evangelical concerns played a major role in national politics. David Watt, in this readable and persuasive book, examines what happened in that fifty-year period. This book is an intellectual history of the evangelical movement in the period of its rise to prominence and power. What Watt finds is that changes were more striking than continuities. Many of these changes manifested themselves in shifts of focus--from an emphasis on the second coming of Christ to the family, from privatization to politicization of religious concerns, from an antipathy to therapeutic practices to an acceptance of many of the assumptions of modern psychology. Watt believes that evangelicalism, as every other "ism," is subject to the influence of conflicting ideologies. The book explores ideas and attitudes, not practice. It is based on the popular literature produced by evangelicals. In many ways it does not develop and prove a thesis; rather, it puts what we think we know about the experience of evangelicalism in this country into the context of the lives of evangelicals themselves.
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Watt, David Harrington was born on August 5, 1957 in Louisville. Son of Raymond Dewey Junior and Elise (Miller) Watt.
Bachelor of Arts in History, University of California, Berkeley, 1979; Message Telecommunications Service, Harvard University, 1983; Doctor of Philosophy in History of America Civilization, Harvard University, 1987.
Teaching fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1983-1985; instructor, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1986-1987; assistant professor, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1987-1992; associate professor religious studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, since 1992.
( Over the course of the twentieth century, evangelicals ...)
Member Modern Language Association, American History Association, Organization American Historians, American Studies Association.
Married Cydney Harrington, August 1980 (divorced February 1991).