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Thank you Shawn and everyone else who has responded to my question. These references are very helpful. 

Have a great week!!

Birgitta Johnson
Postdoctoral Fellow Ethnomusicology
Art & Music Histories Department
Syracuse University
308 Bowne Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244

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Happy New Year to all my conference buddies who have responded:o)


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    Duncan Vinson <duncan...@gmail.com> Jan 22 10:02PM -0500  

    Looking at the question of evangelical definition from another side, you
    might find useful these sources:
     
    - William M. Shea, The Lion and the Lamb: Evangelicals and Catholics in
    America (Oxford, 2004) - from a Catholic perspective
    - The Evangelicals: What They Believe, Who They Are, Where They Are
    Changing, ed. David F. Wells and John D. Woodbridge (Nashville: Abington
    Press, 1975) - dated, but good for showing how Evangelical-Catholic
    relations were much more suspicious before they found themselves on the
    same side of the 1980s culture wars
     
    My own research and performing experience has been in the so-called
    "mainline Protestant" world, which is a similarly slippery and contested
    label that no one agrees on a definition for. It seems to me that in
    practice "mainline" often means "not evangelical" and "evangelical" means
    "not mainline", but few think carefully about what substance these terms
    have in themselves without reference to a rejected alternative.
     
    Best wishes,
    Duncan
     
     
     
    --
    Duncan Vinson, PhD - educator and church musician
    Director of Music, First Congregational Church, Melrose, Massachusetts
    duncan...@gmail.com
    http://duncanvinson.blogspot.com

     

    MAC HG <hgei...@me.com> Jan 22 10:16PM -0800  

    Of course “evangelical” essentially and traditionally, since the 16th-century Reformation, meant “centered in the good news of Jesus.” Today’s usage among many Christians, emanating from 18th- and 19th-century social movements, has mutated the term into sociological jargon which like any other such jargon has become hardly meaningful at all. Many “mainline” (established historic denominational) Protestant churches, and even some Roman Catholic parishes, consider themselves “evangelical” by their own definitions, some using the term in a manner more like the Reformation meaning and others more in the modern American sociological sense.
     
    The National Association of Evangelicals (http://www.nae.net/church-and-faith-partners/what-is-an-evangelical) initially provide the following fairly acceptable definition:
    Evangelicals take the Bible seriously and believe in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
    The site soon thereafter introduces the contemporary baggage the term has acquired in the attempt to suggest some aspects of theological unity among churches that identify themselves as evangelicals.
     
    Herbert G. Geisler, Ph.D.
    Chair, Department of Music
    Director of Musical Activities
    Professor of Music
    Concordia University
    1530 Concordia West
    Irvine, CA 92612-3203
    949-214-3412
     
     
     
    On Jan 22, 2012, at 7:02 PM, Duncan Vinson wrote:
     

     

    Deborah Justice <drju...@indiana.edu> Jan 23 02:27AM -0500  

    Hi Brigitta and everyone,
     
    What great questions and a nice resource list we're compiling here!
     
    In addition to the resources already suggested (which have probably
    largely covered what you were going for!), I would also recommend
    historian John Turner's "Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The
    Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America." (UNC Press 2008) It
    provides a nice overview of changing definitions of evangelical,
    fundamental, and pentecostal and the cultural implications thereof.
     
    Monique also modestly didn't list her own dissertation as having a nice
    discussion of the topic.
     
    Following Duncan's introducing the related subject of mainline vs.
    evangelical...that distinction, although previously oddly theological
    (odd following Herb's pointing out that nearly all Christians are
    technically evangelical) has become more of a cultural marker of
    difference within white Christian circles. I cover that issue in a
    sub-chapter of my dissertation (which is currently waiting for
    administrative balls to get rolling for a defense). I've touched on
    this briefly in some publications, and the upcoming Oxford Handbook of
    World Christianities should have a number of relevant articles.
     
    But, sorry, I've got nothing on evangelicals and Christian people of
    color that hasn't already been put forward here.
     
    Good luck with your project, and please let us know when/where we can
    read it/listen to it!
     
    Best,
    Deborah Justice
     
     
     
    --
    Deborah Justice
    PhD Candidate, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    Indiana University

     

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