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Paul Maltby has written a sophisticated, original study contrasting postmodernism and fundamentalism as antithetical currents in contemporary American culture. Writing from the perspective of the culture of disenchantment, and bringing together scholarship from a broad range of disciplines, Maltby offers a persuasive and original critique of Christian fundamentalism in America.</p>--Brian D. Ingraffia, Calvin College, author of <i>Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God's Shadow</i>

Paul Maltby has written a sophisticated, original study contrasting postmodernism and fundamentalism as antithetical currents in contemporary American culture. Writing from the perspective of the culture of disenchantment, and bringing together scholarship from a broad range of disciplines, Maltby offers a persuasive and original critique of Christian fundamentalism in America.--Brian D. Ingraffia, Calvin College, author of Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God's Shadow

<p>Paul Maltby has written a sophisticated, original study contrasting postmodernism and fundamentalism as antithetical currents in contemporary American culture. Writing from the perspective of the culture of disenchantment, and bringing together scholarship from a broad range of disciplines, Maltby offers a persuasive and original critique of Christian fundamentalism in America.--Brian D. Ingraffia, Calvin College, author of Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God's Shadow

Useful in classes on American popular culture, this book will prove valuable to philosophers, literary critics, and religious studies scholars. Recommended strongly, as the clarity, novelty, and honesty of Maltby's arguments will provide insights for anyone trying to comprehend the contemporary American standoff between hyperironic postmodernism and hyperrigid denotative fundamentalism. --Journal of American Culture Armed with philosophical and methodological savvy together with an outsider's perspective, Paul Maltby has produced a most impressive study of fundamentalism in the United States. Christian Fundamentalism and the Culture of Disenchantment helps us understand the counterintuitive appeal of fundamentalism and also proposes a constructive response. --Randall Balmer, Dartmouth College, author of The Making of Evangelicalism Paul Maltby has written a sophisticated, original study contrasting postmodernism and fundamentalism as antithetical currents in contemporary American culture. Writing from the perspective of the culture of disenchantment, and bringing together scholarship from a broad range of disciplines, Maltby offers a persuasive and original critique of Christian fundamentalism in America. --Brian D. Ingraffia, Calvin College, author of Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God's Shadow

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Paul Maltby is Professor of English at West Chester University, USA and the author of The Visionary Moment: A Postmodern Critique.

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