Randall Balmer

Randall Herbert Balmer (born October 22, 1954 in Chicago ) is an American historian of religion . He is a professor at Barnard College of Columbia University , editor of Christianity Today and priest of the Episcopal Church .

Randall Balmer received his Ph.D. 1985 at Princeton University . He published several books on American religious history and published the "Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism" . His book "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America" was the basis of a three-part documentary on American public television PBS . Other documentaries of his that have aired on PBS include "Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham" and "In the Beginning: The Creationist Controversy."

bibliography

• Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America . 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-19-530046-7
• Blessed Assurance: A History of Evangelicalism in America . Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. ISBN 0-807-07711-9
• Protestantism in America . New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-231-11130-4
• Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Waco: Baylor University Press, 2004. ISBN 193279204X
• Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America . New York: Basic Books, 2006. ISBN 0-465-00519-5
• God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush . San Francisco: HarperOne, 2008. ISBN 0-060-73405-1

Web links

• Randall Herbert Balmer at Barnard College Dept. of religion