Randall Balmer
Author · 15 books
Randall Herbert Balmer, Ph.D. (Princeton University, 1985), is an ordained Episcopal Priest and historian of American religion, and holds the John Phillips Chair in Religion at Dartmouth College. He also has taught at Barnard College; Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, Drew, Emory, Yale and Northwestern universities; and at Union Theological Seminary. Balmer was nominated for an Emmy Award for the PBS documentary "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory," based on his book of the same title.
Series
Books
Protestantism in America
2002
Thy Kingdom Come
How the Religious Right Distorts Faith and Threatens America
2006
Bad Faith
Race and the Rise of the Religious Right
2021
The Presbyterians (Denominations in America
1993
Passion Plays
How Religion Shaped Sports in North America
2022
Evangelicalism in America
2016
Redeemer
The Life of Jimmy Carter
2014
Solemn Reverence
The Separation of Church and State in American Life
2021
A Perfect Babel of Confusion
Dutch Religion and English Culture in the Middle Colonies
1989
Blessed Assurance
A History of Evangelicalism in America
1999
The Making of Evangelicalism
From Revivalism to Politics and Beyond
2010
Growing Pains
Learning to Love My Father's Faith
2001
God in the White House
A History: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
2008
Grant Us Courage
Travels Along the Mainline of American Protestantism
1995
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America
1989
