The Hidden History of the Historic Fundamentalists, 1933-1948: Reconsidering the Historic Fundamentalists' Response to the Upheavals, Hardship, and Horrors of the 1930s and 1940s

by Jim Owen

Overview

Over the last forty years, historians' interpretation of the historic fundamentalists—circa the 1930s and 1940s—has accused them of social and political indifference to the hardships people experienced during the Great Depression and the Holocaust. In this book, Jim Owen examines historic fundamentalist magazines and journals to determine why there is such a radical disparity between what historians have written and what historic fundamentalists actually did. Through Professor Owen's investigation, we see a compassionate movement very involved—socially and politically—during the Great Depression, and a group that was vocal in combating anti-Semitism and denouncing the horrors of Nazi persecution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761828976
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/15/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	426
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Jim Owen holds an M.A. in Humanities (1979) from California State University, Dominguez Hills. He is Associate Professor of History at the Master's College in Santa Clarita, California.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Foreword
Chapter 3 Preface
Chapter 4 Acknowledgments
Chapter 5 Introduction
Chapter 6 Historic Fundamentalism and its Critics: "It Ain't Necessarily So!"
Chapter 7 Historic Fundamentalism and the Great Depression: Seeing it from Their Perspective
Chapter 8 Historic Fundamentalism and the Oversight of God: Judgment and Mercy Toward a Prodigal Nation
Chapter 9 Historic Fundamentalism Speaking Politically: The Duties and Passions of the Christian Citizen
Chapter 10 Historic Fundamentalism Post World War II: The Evangelical Obligation to Save America
Chapter 11 Historic Fundamentalism Post World War II, Part II: Saving Protestant American Democracy from Roman Catholicism
Chapter 12 Historic Fundamentalism and the Jews: Responding to European Anti-Semitism
Chapter 13 Historic Fundamentalism and the Jews: Is this Suffering Nothing to You Who Pass By?
Chapter 14 Historic Fundamentalism and Anti-Semitism: Refuting Undeserved Accusations, Reclaiming Sullied Reputations
Chapter 15 Historic Fundamentalism and the Supernatural: A Non-Conformist Historiography
Chapter 16 Epilogue
Chapter 17 Author Biography
Chapter 18 Index