Frances FitzGerald

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker contributor Frances FitzGerald delivers the Joanna Jackson Goldman Lectures in American Civilization. Using Jerry Falwell and the growth of the Moral Majority as a lens, FitzGerald will discuss the fundamental shift in cultural attitudes represented by a new ... (more)evangelical movement, led by pastors such as Rick Warren, Rich Cizik, and Joel Hunter. She will describe the origins of this new wave of Christian thought in colleges, seminaries, and suburban mega-churches, highlight the movement's debates with the religious right, and consider the prospects for its future.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker contributor Frances FitzGerald delivers the Joanna Jackson Goldman Lectures in American Civilization. Using Jerry Falwell and the growth of the Moral Majority as a lens, FitzGerald will look at how the agenda and constituency of the religious right emerged ... (more)in relation to large social,economic, and philosophical forces during the twentieth century.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker contributor Frances FitzGerald delivers the Joanna Jackson Goldman Lectures in American Civilization. FitzGerald will define American evangelicalism in religious and cultural terms, finding its origins in the First and the Second Great Awakenings, outlining ... (more)its distinctive characteristics, and showing where the split between evangelicals and mainline Christians began