Evangelicals represented no single approach to America’s problems. The movement included a number of distinct subgroups. Among them were the fundamentalists, the militant right-wing churchmen who opposed all accommodation to contemporary culture, and the Pentecostals, who had experienced the “baptism in the Holy Spirit” and practiced such divine “gifts” as speaking in tongues and miraculous healing by prayer. These Pentecostals, or Charismatics as some preferred, included everything from Episcopalians and nearly a million Roman Catholics, to faith healers and assorted tent preachers. Most
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