Fundamentalism and American Culture / Edition 2

Fundamentalism and American Culture / Edition 2

by George M. Marsden
ISBN-10:
0195300475
ISBN-13:
9780195300475
Pub. Date:
02/23/2006
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0195300475
ISBN-13:
9780195300475
Pub. Date:
02/23/2006
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Fundamentalism and American Culture / Edition 2

Fundamentalism and American Culture / Edition 2

by George M. Marsden

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Overview


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 the fundamentalist 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 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.

For Marsden, fundamentalists are not just religious conservatives; they are conservatives who are willing to take a stand and to fight. In Marsden's words (borrowed by Jerry Falwell), "a fundamentalist is an evangelical who is angry about something." 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. By the 1920s a full-fledged "fundamentalist" movement had developed in protest against theological changes in the churches and changing mores in the culture. Building on networks of evangelists, Bible conferences, Bible institutes, and missions agencies, fundamentalists coalesced into a major protest movement that proved to have remarkable staying power.

For this new edition, a major new chapter compares fundamentalism since the 1970s to the fundamentalism of the 1920s, looking particularly at the extraordinary growth in political emphasis and power of the more recent movement. Never has it been more important to understand the history of fundamentalism in our rapidly polarizing nation. Marsen's carefully researched and engrossing work remains the best way to do just that.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195300475
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 02/23/2006
Edition description: REV
Pages: 468
Sales rank: 702,715
Product dimensions: 9.26(w) x 6.32(h) x 0.98(d)
Lexile: 1500L (what's this?)

About the Author

George M. Marsden is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Jonathan Edwards: A Life.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition
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 Millennialism
VI. Dispensationalism and the Baconian Ideal
VII. History, Society, and the Church

Holiness

VIII. The Victorious Life
IX. The Social Dimensions of Holiness
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
XVIII. The Fundamentalist Offensive on Two Fronts: 1920-1921
XIX. Would the Liberals Be Driven from the Denominations? 1922-1923
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)

Part Six
What Happened to Fundamentalism in the Twenty-First Century

Afterword: History and Fundamentalism
Notes
Bibliographical Indexes
Index
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