Grant Wacker

Grant Wacker is author of Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture and teaches Christian history at Duke Divinity School.

Articles by Grant Wacker

Books

When God Talks Back

Understanding the
American Evangelical Relationship with God

By T. M. Luhrmann

God at hand

Feb 11, 2013 by Grant Wacker

How did evangelicals develop their belief in an invisible God? T. M. Luhrmann argues that they created a space in their imagination.

Books

Redeemed by Fire

The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China

By Lian Xi

China’s homegrown Protestants

Jan 31, 2013 by Grant Wacker

According to Lian Xi, radical Protestantism flourished in 20th-century China partly by distancing itself from the Western missionary establishment.

Books

Homies and Hermanos

God and Gangs in Central America

by Robert Bren­neman

Understanding World Christianity

The Vision and Work of Andrew F. Walls

edited by William R. Burrows, Mark R. Gornik and Janice A. McLean

God Is Red

The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China

by Liao Yiwu

Summoned from the Margin

Homecoming of an African

By Lamin Sanneh

Religion in China

Survival and Revival Under Communist Rule

by Fenggang Yang

Bad Religion

How We Became a Nation of Heretics

By Ross Douthat

Into the Pulpit

Southern Baptist Women and Power Since World War II

by Elizabeth H. Flowers

God and the Atlantic

America, Europe, and the Religious Divide

by Thomas Albert Howard

Southern Crucifix/Southern Cross

Catholic-Protestant Relations in the Old South

by Andrew Henry Stern

Heavenly Merchandize

How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America

by Mark Valeri

World Christianity & American religion

Take & read
Oct 04, 2012 selected by Philip Jenkins and Grant Wacker

Homies and Hermanos: God and Gangs in Central America, by Robert Bren­neman. A courageous scholar, Brenneman has undertaken extensive interviews with former members of some of Central America’s most lethal street gangs who have converted to evangelical and Pentecostal Chris­tianity.

Books

Bad Religion

How We Became a Nation of Heretics

By Ross Douthat

Religion in decline?

Aug 28, 2012 by Grant Wacker

Readers familiar with Ross Douthat's column might expect his new book to be moderately conservative and carefully nuanced. It is neither.

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