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Rethinking Zion - How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Zion - How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South (Hardcover)
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Long before the red state/blue state divide, Americans have tended
to think of the South as a natural home to and birthplace of
Christian fundamentalism. Despite historical evidence and scholarly
research to the contrary, the view of the South as a fundamentalist
center persists. Rethinking Zion documents the process by which the
South received its fundamentalist label and chronicles the forces
at work in creating the image of the South as the Bible Belt. Mary
Beth Swetnam Mathews places the discussion more squarely in the
complex history of the print media. She argues that the idea of the
South as fundamentalist sprang from long-held cultural observations
and prejudices--both real and unfounded--that were developed long
before the opening of the famous 1925 Scopes trial in Tennessee.
She examines how the growth of the media in the early twentieth
century played a crucial role in portraying the South as a violent,
poorly educated, provincial region. By examining secular media
sources, Mathews places the study of the influence of religion upon
culture and culture upon religion in a broader context. A
thought-provoking book, Rethinking Zion adds much to the study of
existing literature on the rise of fundamentalism and is an
important resource for scholars and students of southern history,
religious history, and the history of journalism.
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