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  As early as the revivals of the Second Great Awakening, evangelists have been important producers and consumers of popular culture. Voluntary organizations such as the American Bible Society and the American Tract Society helped to usher in the mass media. Ira Sankey married secular tunes with evangelical lyrics. Then came what historians now refer to as the 'Great Reversal.' As liberal Protestants and Catholics embraced the Social Gospel, evangelicals narrowed the scope of Christian activism to converting individuals. They also began to turn against popular culture. Following the embarrassments of the Scopes trial of 1925, evangelicals followed their fundamentalist kin into a conservative Christian cocoon of their own making. No longer committed to Christianizing American culture, they decided to withdraw from it. This Great Reversal began to reverse itself after World War II, and by the late sixties a new creature had emerged from the old cocoon. The 'Neo-Evangelical,' as this creature was called, was more open to social action and to popular culture (including mass media). His resurgence, notably in the person of President Jimmy Carter, prompted Time and Newsweek to anoint 1976 'The Year of the Evangelical' and prepared the way for the powerful entry in the 1980s of born-again Christians into the public square. It also set the stage for Jesus rock.