Gabriel Raeburn

Gabriel Raeburn is a Ph.D. candidate in Religious Studies and History, working at the intersection of religion and politics, and the histories of race, inequality and evangelicalism in the United States throughout the twentieth century. His dissertation challenges prevailing narratives on the rise of the Religious Right, by focusing on Pentecostals and charismatics, predominantly located in Oklahoma and the South-West. Throughout the postwar period, these religious actors built, developed and spread the Prosperity Gospel, transforming American religion and politics in the process. In contrast to prevailing studies, his research demonstrates that conceptions of race and desegregation battles were critical to the development of the prosperity movement.