Fundamentalism and American Culture, (Paperback)

from jstamp26

Marsden has done groundbreaking research into the Fundamentalist controversy of one hundred years ago. He begins the study by correctly identifying the movement as essentially religious. Certainly, the coalition that became known as Fundamentalism was never one thing. It was an odd conglomeration...

from swg214

This is a superb and amazing monograph and is recommended to all students of early twentieth-century American religion and culture. This is considered to be a groundbreaking work and one that every historian writing on American Christianity refers to. It is remarkable for the breadth, richness an...

from Scapegoats

This book is an examination of the foundations of fundamentalism in American Protestantism. Marsden looks at the half century after the Civil War. He notes that fundamentalists were the vast majority of Americans in the 1870's but were a minority following World War I. The movement was a continua...

from jstamp26

Marsden has done groundbreaking research into the Fundamentalist controversy of one hundred years ago. He begins the study by correctly identifying the movement as essentially religious. Certainly, the coalition that became known as Fundamentalism was never one thing. It was an odd conglomeration...

from swg214

This is a superb and amazing monograph and is recommended to all students of early twentieth-century American religion and culture. This is considered to be a groundbreaking work and one that every historian writing on American Christianity refers to. It is remarkable for the breadth, richness an...