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Fundamentalism and American Culture (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Fundamentalism and American Culture (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Many American's today are taking note of the surprisingly strong
political force that is the religious right. Controversial
decisions by the government are met with hundreds of lobbyists,
millions of dollars of advertising spending, and a powerful
grassroots response. How has the fundamentalist movement managed to
resist the pressures of the scientific community and the draw of
modern popular culture to hold on to their ultra-conservative
Christian views? Understanding the movement's history is key to
answering this question. Fundamentalism and American Culture has
long been considered a classic in religious history, and to this
day remains unsurpassed. Now available in a new edition, this
highly regarded analysis takes us through the full history of the
origin and direction of one of America's most influential religious
movements.
For Marsden, fundamentalists are not just religious conservatives;
they are conservatives who are willing to take a stand and to
fight. In Marsden's words (borrowed by Jerry Falwell), "a
fundamentalist is an evangelical who is angry about something." In
the late nineteenth century American Protestantism was gradually
dividing between liberals who were accepting new scientific and
higher critical views that contradicted the Bible and defenders of
the more traditional evangelicalism. By the 1920s a full-fledged
"fundamentalist" movement had developed in protest against
theological changes in the churches and changing mores in the
culture. Building on networks of evangelists, Bible conferences,
Bible institutes, and missions agencies, fundamentalists coalesced
into a major protest movement that proved to have remarkable
staying power.
For this new edition, a major new chapter compares fundamentalism
since the 1970s to the fundamentalism of the 1920s, looking
particularly at the extraordinary growth in political emphasis and
power of the more recent movement. Never has it been more important
to understand the history of fundamentalism in our rapidly
polarizing nation. Marsen's carefully researched and engrossing
work remains the best way to do just that.
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