AKA Barry Gene Hankins

Born: 27-Oct-1956
Birthplace: Bossier City, LA

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Jesus and Gin

Father: Robert James Hankins
Mother: Shirley Ruth Jackson
Wife: Jennifer Ann Stubbs (m. 1978)
Son: Dixon Jackson
Daughter: Johanna Marie

    University: BA Religion, Baylor University (1978)
    University: MA Church-State Studies, Baylor University (1983)
    University: PhD Religion, Kansas State University (1990)
    Teacher: Vanguard College Preparatory School, Waco, TX (1986-90)
    Professor: Louisiana College (1990-96)
    Professor: History, Baylor University

Author of books:
God's Rascal: J. Frank Norris & the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism (1996, biography)
Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture (2002, religion)
The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists (2004, religion)
Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America (2008, biography)
American Evangelicals: A Contemporary History of a Mainstream Religious Movement (2008, religion)
Jesus and Gin: Evangelicalism, the Roaring Twenties and Today's Culture Wars (2010, religion)
Baptists in America: A History (2015, religion)

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