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Religion & Religious Movements

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Billy Graham 1918–2018Religion & Religious MovementsEvangelist whose mass crusades, media reach, and presidential relationships made him a defining figure in modern American Protestantism.JEJonathan Edwards 1703–1758Religion & Religious MovementsTheologian and preacher whose role in the Great Awakening shaped American evangelical religion.Cotton Mather 1663–1728Religion & Religious MovementsPuritan minister who wrote the official defense of the Salem witch court and later campaigned for smallpox inoculation.Reinhold Niebuhr 1892–1971Religion & Religious MovementsTheologian whose Christian realism influenced American foreign policy, civil rights, and public ethics.TMThomas Merton 1915–1968Religion & Religious MovementsTrappist monk and writer whose books popularized contemplative spirituality, social criticism, and interfaith dialogue.Ellen G. White 1827–1915Religion & Religious MovementsCo-founder and prophet of the Seventh-day Adventist ChurchJoel Osteen b. 1963Religion & Religious MovementsBuilt his father's Houston church into the largest congregation in the United States and preached it to millions on television.Norman Vincent Peale 1898–1993Religion & Religious MovementsMinister whose bestselling positive-thinking message joined American Protestantism with modern self-help culture.