![]() RU: The Evangelicals came out in 2017, and it’s quite a dense book. The interview is edited for length and clarity. Religion Unplugged sat down with FitzGerald in late November at her Upper East Side home to discuss her work and its relevance halfway through Trump’s term. ![]() Through an academic lens, Fitzgerald helps her readers understand how this group (nearly a quarter of Americans) originated and led to the controversies sparked in recent years. ![]() Through hundreds of articles and op-eds, reporters and pollsters are slowly educating the world on who these “white evangelicals” are and where they came from.īut for journalist and historian Frances FitzGerald, the fervor surrounding the 81 percent of white evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 is merely another cycle of evangelicalism rising to the public’s attention.įitzGerald’s sixth and latest book, The Evangelicals, tracks the history of the constantly shifting, decentralized movement of white evangelicalism. For the past two years, many media outlets seem to be obsessed with one particular group of people––the one which by-in-large elected President Donald Trump. ![]()
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