[1] 作者注:“special Providence”意思是神圣的祝福。See Mead, Special Providence.
[2] Skillen, With or against the World? 78.
[3] 作者注:委员会在干草堆祷告会不久之后成立,是第二次大觉醒的一部分。See Harvey, The Columbia Guide to Religion, 31–32.
[4] 作者注:传教士也被派往当时还不是美国领土一部分的北美部分地区。
[5] See Amstutz, Evangelicals, 31.
[6] Harold Ockenga, quoted in Amstutz, Evangelicals, 33; emphasis added.
[7] 作者注:奥肯加所指的帝国主义是二战中结成的战争联盟,即轴心国,而不是美国。
[8] 作者注:蒋介石之妻宋美龄,是卫理公会教徒。在他们婚前,宋将蒋转变为基督教徒。
[9] Guth, “Religion and American Public Opinion,” 248.
[10] Mead, “God’s Country?” 40.
[11] See the World Christian Database, http://www.worldchristiandatabase.org/wcd/.
[12] 作者注:2015年的数据是126,650. See the World Christian Database, http://www.worldchristiandatabase.org/wcd/..
[13] 作者注:911恐怖袭击之后,葛培理将他的福音传道行动名称从圣战(crusades) 变更为任务missions.
[14] Rev. Billy Graham, quoted in Stoll, Is Latin America Turning Protestant?, 73.
[15] 作者注:与美国存在纠纷的外国政府经常驱逐或者限制美国传教士。
[16] See Lindsay, Faith in the Halls of Power, 35. 作者注:自艾森豪威尔之后的每一任美国总统都参加过全国祈祷早餐会。
[17] See Lindsay, Faith in the Halls of Power, 70–71.
[18] 作者注:许多美国传教士在共产党取得胜利之前曾在中国工作,并与国民党建立密切联系。
[19] See Chapter 7.
[20] See Zinsmeister, “Is the Focus of American Evangelicals Shifting Overseas?,” 1–6.
[21] See Pew Research Center, “U.S. Public Becoming Less Religious,” http://www.pewforum.org/2015/11/03/u-s-public-becoming-less-religious/.
[22] See Smither, “The Impact of Evangelical Revivals”; and Brasil Fonseca, “Religion and Democracy in Brazil,” 163–70.
[23] 作者注:例如:美属萨摩亚,关岛,北马里亚纳群岛以及马绍尔群岛。