Evangelical may refer to: Lutheranism; Evangelicalism, Christian theological view emphasizing personal faith and the authority of the Bible; Evangelism, Christian proselytism
Tomlinson argues that "linguistically, the distinction [between evangelical and post-evangelical] is similar to the one that sociologists make between the modern and postmodern eras.
Likewise, evangelical cultural hegemony was diminished in pure numeric terms with the influx of millions of non-Protestant immigrants in the latter 19th and early 20th centuries.