Fundamentalism and American Culture

by George M. Marsden

Overview

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:	9780195300512
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/09/2006
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	468
Product dimensions:	9.50(w) x 6.32(h) x 1.16(d)
Lexile:	1500L (what's this?)

About the Author

George M. Marsden is Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emeritus of History at The University of Notre Dame and a Distinguished Scholar in the History of Christianity at Calvin Theological Seminary. He has published major works on a variety of topics concerning American religion and culture, and his awards include The Bancroft Prize in History and the Grawemeyer Award in Religion. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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

Editorial Reviews

"One of Christianity Today's 100 Books of the Century" —

"Superb...to be recommended to all students of early twentieth-century culture and religion." — American Historical Review

"Scholarship at its best." — Religious Studies Review

"Marsden reveals a great deal of history, showing the origins, development and growth of evangelicalism and fundamentalism. His is a focused yet broad scholarly work that has stood the test of time, a worthwhile history resource on fundamentalism in America." — Congregational Libraries Today

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