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1 online resource (365 pages) |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; PART ONE Before Fundamentalism; I. Evangelical America at the Brink of Crisis; II. The Paths Diverge; III. D.L. Moody and a New American Evangelism; PART TWO The Shaping of a Coalition; This Age and the Millennium; IV. Prologue: The Paradox of Revivalist Fundamentalism; V. Two Revisions of MillenniaUsm; VI. Dispensationalism and the Baconian Ideal; VII. History, Society, and the Church; Holiness; VIII. The Victorious Life; IX. The Social Dimensions of Holiness |
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X. "The Great Reversal, "XI. Holiness and Fundamentalism; The Defense of the Faith; XII. Tremors of Controversy; XIII. Presbyterians and the Truth; XIV. The Fundamentals; Christianity and Culture; XV. Four Views Circa 1910; 1. This Age Condemned: The Premillennial Extreme; 2. The Central Tension; 3. William Jennings Bryan: Christian Civilization Preserved; 4. Transforming Culture by the Word; PART THREE The Crucial Years: 1917-1925; XVI. World War I, Premillennialism, and American Fundamentalism: 1917-1918; XVII. Fundamentalism and the Cultural Crisis: 1919-1920 |
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XVIII. The Fundamentalist Offensive on Two Fronts: 1920-1921XIX. Would the Liberals Be Driven from the Denominations? 1922-1923, 171; XX. The Offensive Stalled and Breaking Apart: 1924-1925; XXI. Epilogue: Dislocation, Relocation, and Resurgence: 1925-1940; PART FOUR Interpretations; XXII. Fundamentalism as a Social Phenomenon; XXIII. Fundamentalism as a Political Phenomenon; XXIV. Fundamentalism as an Intellectual Phenomenon; XXV. Fundamentalism as an American Phenomenon; PART FIVE Fundamentalism Yesterday and Today (2005); AFTERWORD History and Fundamentalism; Notes; Bibliographical Indexes |
| Summary |
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 thefundamentalist 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 longbeen considered a classi |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
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Fundamentalism -- United States
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Christianity and culture -- United States
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Christianity and culture
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Fundamentalism
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780195300475 |
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0195300475 |
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