Fundamentalism and American Culture

George M. Marsden (Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emeritus of History,, Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emeritus of History,, University of Notre Dame)

Fundamentalism and American Culture
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Country
United States
Published
27 April 2022
Pages
440
ISBN
9780197599495

Fundamentalism and American Culture

George M. Marsden (Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emeritus of History,, Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emeritus of History,, University of Notre Dame)

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

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