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David Harrington Watt's Antifundamentalism in Modern America gives
us a pathbreaking account of the role that the fear of
fundamentalism has played—and continues to play—in American
culture. Fundamentalism has never been a neutral category of
analysis, and Watt scrutinizes the various political purposes that
the concept has been made to serve. In 1920, the conservative
Baptist writer Curtis Lee Laws coined the word "fundamentalists."
Watt examines the antifundamentalist polemics of Harry Emerson
Fosdick, Talcott Parsons, Stanley Kramer, and Richard Hofstadter,
which convinced many Americans that religious fundamentalists were
almost by definition backward, intolerant, and anti-intellectual
and that fundamentalism was a dangerous form of religion that had
no legitimate place in the modern world. For almost fifty years,
the concept of fundamentalism was linked almost exclusively to
Protestant Christians. The overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the
establishment of an Islamic republic led to a more elastic
understanding of the nature of fundamentalism. In the late 1970s
and early 1980s, Americans became accustomed to using
fundamentalism as a way of talking about Muslims, Jews, Hindus,
Sikhs, and Buddhists, as well as Christians. Many Americans came to
see Protestant fundamentalism as an expression of a larger
phenomenon that was wreaking havoc all over the world.
Antifundamentalism in Modern America is the first book to provide
an overview of the way that the fear of fundamentalism has shaped
U.S. culture, and it will lead readers to rethink their
understanding of what fundamentalism is and what it does.
General
Imprint: |
Cornell University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2017 |
First published: |
2017 |
Authors: |
David Harrington Watt
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
240 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8014-4827-0 |
Categories: |
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Humanities >
History >
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General
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LSN: |
0-8014-4827-1 |
Barcode: |
9780801448270 |
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