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Fundamentalism and American Culture (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
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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. In the twenty-first
century, militantly conservative white evangelicals have become
more prominent than ever in American life. Marsden's volume, which
now takes the history through the end of the Trump administration,
remains the essential starting point for understanding the degree
to which that militancy has been shaped by the fundamentalist
heritage of the twentieth century. For Marsden, fundamentalists
are, in the broadest sense, conservative evangelicals who are
willing to take a stand and to fight. Yet their militancy needs to
be understood in the light of some specific aspects of their
heritage. 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. Often the
"traditionalists" were also innovators in affirming apocalyptic
prophesies of the imminent destruction of modern civilization and
the return of Christ. By the 1920s, a full-fledged "fundamentalist"
movement had developed in protest against theological changes in
the churches, the teaching of biological evolution in schools, and
changing mores in the culture. Fundamentalists often were
conflicted by impulses to separate from condemned modern culture or
to take back America as a Christian nation. Even with such
tensions, fundamentalists built networks of evangelists, Bible
conferences, Bible institutes, and mission agencies. These
coalesced into major religious movements that proved to have
remarkable staying power. Beginning in the 1970s, fundamentalist
impulses led to increasing overt political mobilization and the
rise of the religious right. In the twenty-first century, militant
fundamentalist zeal to preserve Biblicist doctrinal and behavioral
purity in churches remained strong, but often was overshadowed by
more widely popular impulses of Christian nationalism and political
partisanship.
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