Evangelicals are increasingly turning their attention to such issues as the environment, international human rights, economic development, racial reconciliation, and urban renewal. The New Evangelical Social Engagement maps this new religious terrain and spells out its significance.

Table of Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Contributors ; Introduction: The New Evangelical Social Engagement ; Brian Steensland and Philip Goff ; Part One: Recent Evangelical Movements and Trends ; Chapter One - "FORMED": Emerging Evangelicals Navigate Two Transformations ; James S. Bielo ; Chapter Two - Whose Social Justice? Which Evangelicalism? Social Engagement in a Campus Ministry ; John Schmalzbauer ; Chapter Three - All Catholics Now? Spectres of Catholicism in Evangelical Social Engagement ; Omri Elisha ; Chapter Four - The New Monasticism ; Will Samson ; Chapter Five - "We Need a Revival": Young Evangelical Women Redefine Activism in New York City ; Adriane Bilous ; Chapter Six - New and Old Evangelical Public Engagement: A View from the Polls ; John C. Green ; Part Two: Areas of Evangelical Social Engagement ; Chapter Seven - Green Evangelicals ; Laurel Kearns ; Chapter Eight - The Rise of the Diversity Expert: How American Evangelicals Simultaneously Accentuate and Ignore Race ; Gerardo Marti and Michael O. Emerson ; Chapter Nine - Pro-Lifers of the Left: Progressive Evangelicals' Campaign Against Abortion ; Daniel K. Williams ; Chapter Ten - Global Reflex: International Evangelicals, Human Rights, and the New Shape of American Social Engagement ; David R. Swartz ; Chapter Eleven - Global Poverty and Evangelical Action ; Amy Reynolds and Stephen Offutt ; Part Three: Reflections on Evangelical Social Engagement ; Chapter Twelve - What's New about the New Evangelical Social Engagement? ; Joel Carpenter ; Chapter Thirteen - Evangelicals of the 1970s and 2010s: What's the Same, What's Different, and What's Urgent ; R. Stephen Warner ; Chapter Fourteen - We Need a New Reformation ; Glen Harold Stassen ; Index

"[T]he essays succeed in presenting new and surprising images of evangelicals' engagement with the public sphere. As evangelicals continue their foray into new territories of engagement, their assumptions, convictions, and styles will profoundly shape the terrain they encounter. This book will ignite the curiosity of any social scientist interested in the evolving relationship between evangelical Christianity and civic life."--Amy Jonason, Sociology of Religion "A very good introduction to this branch of Christianity as a whole."--Catholic Books Review "Accessible...This volume is an essential resource for evangelical trend spotting."--Journal of Religion "The strengths of this book are many. It offers an important corrective to the widely held view of evangelical activism that is predominately political and right-wing....All the substantive chapters are strong contributions. They cover a broad range of topics, are informative, and show excellent depth of analysis. The book is well written and coherent....I recommend this book highly. It is necessary reading for those interested in American religion. I thank the authors for this important contribution."--Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion "[W]ell written and compellingly argued...the book's composite portrayal of the new evangelical social engagement is full-bodied and complex...The New Evangelical Social Engagement provides an excellent introduction to its subject...Not only does the book enrich the study of American evangelicalism, it also enriches the broader study of American religion in civil society."--Review of Religious Research "A collection of outstanding essays on Christian evangelicalism's turn to social action...The essays address issues of globalization, diversity, and gender and their concomitant complexity, and succeed admirably as a needed corrective to public misperceptions. Summing up: Recommended."--CHOICE "The standard academic view of American evangelicalism is growing more dated by the year. Many new movements and subcultural shifts are underway in evangelicalism that open up possibilities for major changes in the future. Steensland and Goff offer one of the best windows into these important changes among evangelicals. This is a must-read for any student of American religion, culture, politics, and civil society." --Christian Smith, author of Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults "The New Evangelical Social Engagement offers a treasure of resources... this timely volume offers a powerful corrective to the myth, pervasive in the media nad among many academics, that all evangelicals are culture warriors." --Christian Century

Selling point: Introduces a growing trend within American evangelicalism that has gone largely unrecognized by the public and unexamined by scholars Selling point: Has chapters by scholars from various disciplines, such as sociology, history, anthropology, political science, and ethics

Brian Steensland is Director of Social Science Research, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture and Professor of Sociology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. His book The Failed Welfare Revolution received the Mary Douglas Prize and the Political Sociology Book Award. Philip Goff is Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture and Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is author or editor of over thirty books and journal volumes.

Selling point: Introduces a growing trend within American evangelicalism that has gone largely unrecognized by the public and unexamined by scholars Selling point: Has chapters by scholars from various disciplines, such as sociology, history, anthropology, political science, and ethics