Randall Balmer

Biographic Data

ID314330
NAMERandall Balmer
GIVEN NAMESRandall
FAMILY NAMEBalmer
SIGNATUREBALMER R
AFFILIATIONSDartmouth College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS53
TOTAL CITATIONS27
AUTHOR COUNT53
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Dyed in Crimson: Football, Faith, and Remaking Harvard's America

    Open AccessRandall BalmerARTICLEJournal of American History2024

    Journal Article Dyed in Crimson: Football, Faith, and Remaking Harvard's America Get access Dyed in Crimson: Football, Faith, and Remaking Harvard's America. By Zev Eleff. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023. xiv, 284 pp. Cloth, $110.00. Paper, $28.00.) Randall Balmer Randall Balmer Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 111, Is…

  • Strategy and Subterfuge: Billy Graham's Political Machinations from Montreux to the Mayflower Hotel and Beyond

    Open AccessRandall BalmerARTICLEJournal of Church and State2024

    One of the turning points in the 1960 presidential campaign was a gathering of 150 Protestant ministers at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on September 7, 1960, two days after Labor Day. During the closed-door gathering, Protestant leaders, including Norman Vincent Peale, unanimously adopted a statement warning about the dangers to the First Amendment and the separation of church and state should a Roman Catholic be elected president. Drawing o…

  • The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy. By J. Russell Hawkins

    Open AccessRandall BalmerARTICLEJournal of Church and State2023

    Journal Article The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy. By J. Russell Hawkins Get access The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy. By J. Russell Hawkins. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 167pp. $29.95. Randall Balmer Randall Balmer Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Ox…

  • White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America

    Randall BalmerARTICLEHistory of Religions2023

  • Religion and Sport in North America: Critical Essays for the 21st Century

    Jeffrey Scholes, Randall Balmer et al.BOOKReligion and Sport in North America2022

  • Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

    Open AccessRandall BalmerREVIEWThe Annals of Iowa2021

    Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristen Kobes Du Mez

  • Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy. By K. Healan Gaston

    Open AccessRandall BalmerARTICLEJournal of Church and State2021

    I have long argued that when someone starts talking about the “Judeo-Christian tradition,” the most prudent response is to check the security of your pocketbook and carefully count your change. That person very likely is trying to pull something over on the unsuspecting. K. Healan Gaston’s remarkable work of intellectual history, Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy, suggests that although my …

  • The Election of the Evangelical: Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and the Presidential Contest of 1976

    Open AccessRandall BalmerARTICLEJournal of American History2021

    America's quadrennial march to the polls offers a kind of collective punctuation, and historians have seized on these intervals to take the pulse of the nation. Daniel K. Williams's account of the 1976 presidential election is a worthy addition to this genre. “The 1976 election took place in the midst of bicentennial observances,” the author writes, “but for many Americans, the anniversary of the country's founding was a time not for proud celebr…

  • Matthew Bowman. Christian: The Politics of a Word in America

    Open AccessRandall BalmerARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

    Anyone growing up within the evangelical subculture knew exactly the meaning of the word “Christian”: It applied strictly to those who were “born again,” and preferably to those who attended a “Bible-believing” church. Those excluded from that circle included most mainline Protestants and Roman Catholics. Beyond the pale lay such groups as Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Matthew Bowman’s worthy book Christian: The Politics of a Word in America t…

  • The Social Gospel in American Religion: A History

    Randall BalmerARTICLEJournal of American History2018Cited by: 2

    One of the curious thin spots in the historiography of religion in America is the Social Gospel, the religious arm of progressivism in the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century. That such a crucial movement in American life should receive comparatively little scrutiny remains a mystery, but Christopher H. Evans's excellent survey, The Social Gospel in American Religion, goes a long way toward filling that void. Evans opens with a …

  • Darren E. Grem. The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity

    Randall BalmerARTICLEThe American Historical Review2017

    On the face of it, the evangelical embrace of capitalism and free enterprise should be a tough sell. Jesus himself warned that rich men face long odds against entering the kingdom of heaven and that it is impossible to serve both God and Mammon. First-century Christians, as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, held goods in common, a nascent form of socialism. So how is it that many contemporary evangelicals who trumpet their fidelity to the Bib…

  • Forum: Studying Religion in the Age of Trump

    Open AccessRandall Balmer, Kate Bowler et al.ARTICLEReligion and American Culture A…2017Cited by: 4

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  • Outsiders in a Promised Land: Religious Activists in Pacific Northwest History

    Randall BalmerARTICLEJournal of American History2017Cited by: 1

    In this thoroughly researched and informative book, Dale E. Soden argues that many of the religiously driven reform efforts in the Pacific Northwest in the nineteenth century were intended to counter the effects of a predominantly male society. The activists there, the author argues, “were surprisingly united around a common concern: How could they make the region a safer place for women and children?” (p. viii). Concerned about the development o…

  • The Age of Evangelicalism: America's Born-Again Years

    Randall BalmerARTICLEJournal of Church and State2015

    Journal Article The Age of Evangelicalism: America's Born-Again Years Get access The Age of Evangelicalism: America's Born-Again Years. By Steven P. Miller. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 221pp. $24.95. Randall Balmer Randall Balmer Dartmouth CollegeHanover, New Hampshire [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 57, Issue 3, Summer 2015, Pag…

  • Mississippi Missions

    Randall BalmerCHAPTERMine Eyes Have Seen the Glory2014

    This chapter presents the author's account of the struggle against both the entrenched racism of the old Confederacy and the social apathy that continues to grip American evangelicals in Mississippi. He describes the work of John Perkins, founder of the Voice of Calvary Ministries. He also discusses the cultural chasm between white and black evangelicalism. Black religion, with its emotion and frenzy, is viewed askance by most white evangelicals,…

  • “An End to Unjust Inequality in the World”

    Randall BalmerARTICLEChurch History and Religious…2014

    Since the emergence of the Religious Right in the late 1970s, American evangelicalism has commonly been associated with conservative politics. An examination of nineteenth-century evangelicalism, however, suggests a different affinity. Antebellum evangelicals marched in the vanguard of social change with an agenda that almost invariably advocated for those on the margins of society, including women and African Americans. Evangelicals were involve…

  • Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America, 25th Anniversary edition

    Randall BalmerBOOKMine Eyes Have Seen the Glory2014

    This book takes a journey into the world of conservative Christians in America. This book, which is a tour of the highways and byways of American evangelicalism, describes a visit to a revival meeting in Florida, an Indian reservation in the Dakotas, a trade show for Christian booksellers, and a fundamentalist Bible camp in the Adirondacks. Through the eyes of those encountered on the journeys, the book shows a more accurate and balanced understa…

  • The Constitution of Religious Freedom: God, Politics, and the First Amendment

    Open AccessRandall BalmerARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2014

  • New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty; Transatlantic Pieties: Dutch Clergy in Colonial America

    Randall BalmerARTICLEJournal of American History2014

  • Christian Fundamentalism in America: A Cultural History by David S. New

    Open AccessRandall BalmerARTICLETheology Today2013

  • Steven K. Green, The Bible, the School, and the Constitution: The Clash That Shaped Modern Church–State Doctrine

    Open AccessRandall BalmerARTICLETheology2013

  • The Disappearing God Gap? Religion in the 2008 Presidential Election

    Randall BalmerARTICLEJournal of Church and State2010

    It is hardly news to say that the 2008 presidential election made history. Not only did the campaign obliterate all previous records for fundraising and spending, a woman very nearly won a major-party nomination, and the election produced America's first African American president. And for the first time in a generation—since Jimmy Carter—the Democratic nominee was more comfortable talking about his faith than the Republican, who too easily confl…

  • Abstinence-only policies and programs: An overview

    Leslie M Kantor, John Santelli et al.ARTICLESexuality Research and Social…2008Cited by: 15References: 3

  • Evangelical Christian Community in North and South America

    Randall BalmerBOOKOxford Handbook of Global Religions2006

  • American Fundamentalism: The Ideal of Femininity

    Randall BalmerOTHERAmerican Religious History2002