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Fundamentalism in America - Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion (Paperback)
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Fundamentalism in America - Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion (Paperback)
Series: Tendencies: Identities, Texts, Cultures
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This important book challenges the idea that religious
fundamentalism can adequately be understood as a paranoid,
xenophobic faith. It demonstrates instead how it draws upon a long
tradition of evangelical and millennialist scripture in its
engagement with issues at the spiritual and ethical core of
postmodernity in America. The author examines the contradictions of
fundamentalism as they appear in prophecy, sermon, film and
fiction, including work by Gore Vidal, Peter Matthiesen, Thom
Jones, Alison Lurie and Pete Dexter. He shows, in an original
reading, how scripture, race and politics have combined in the
conservative opposition to the Clinton presidency in the writings
of influential figures such as Pat Robertson, Salem Kirban and Hal
Lindsey. Clinton's failure, in this view, had less to do with
sexual depravity than his abandonment as a Southern Methodist of
the Church's evangelising mission, so essential in fundamentalist
belief to the advent of the millennium. In its wide-ranging
consideration of the rhetoric of the 'New World Order', the
literature of prophecy, Cold War films, tele-evangelism,
cross-border texts and postnationalist writing, this book provides
a vital and compelling account of the present crisis in religious
and national identity in the United States.
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