Awards

• "Winner of One of Christianity Today's 100 ""Books of the Century""."
• "Winner of One of ^IChristianity Today's^R 100 ""Books of the Century""."
• Winner of One of Christianity Today's 100 Books of the Century .
• Winner of One of ^IChristianity Today's^R 100 ""Books of the Century"".

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.

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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

<br> 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<p><br>

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 Marsden elegantly synthesizes theological, social, cultural, and intellectual history to elucidate the roots and development of Christian fundamentalism.... An almost impossibly rich work.... This is the one book every American who wants to understand fundamentalism should read. It's also among the best assessments of the cultural transformations that convulsed American from the late nineteenth century to the years immediately following the First World War (transformations this country is still assimilating) and, in its masterly new chapter, of the peculiar and far-from-inevitable political turn that fundamentalism has taken since the 1970s. --Atlantic Monthly One of the most significant works of cultural history in the past twenty-five years. --Benjamin Schwarz, Atlantic Monthly Marsden's book is brilliant in its ability to capture the complexity of fundamentalism in terms of its origins, development, and growth. --Theology Today (on previous edition) Remarkable for the range, richness, and balance of its interpretations.... Marsden's work represents the very best in this genre. It will not, for a very long time, be surpassed or superseded. --William R. Hutchison, Harvard Divinity School 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 A remarkable accomplishment.... Stands among the half-dozen or so most significant books I have read in American religious history. --Nathan O. Hatch, University of Notre Dame

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<br>

Author Information

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.

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