Revive us again : the reawakening of American Fundamentalism /
By the end of the 1920s, fundamentalism in America was intellectually bankrupt and publicly disgraced. Bitterly humiliated by the famous Scopes ""monkey trial, "" this once respected movement retreated from the public forum and seemed doomed to extinction. Yet fundamentalism not...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | By the end of the 1920s, fundamentalism in America was intellectually bankrupt and publicly disgraced. Bitterly humiliated by the famous Scopes ""monkey trial, "" this once respected movement retreated from the public forum and seemed doomed to extinction. Yet fundamentalism not only survived, but in the 1940s it reemerged as a thriving and influential public movement. And today it is impossible to read a newspaper or watch cable TV without seeing the presence of fundamentalism in American society. In Revive Us Again, Joel A. Carpenter illuminates this remarkable transformation, exploring the. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: 1997. "First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 335 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-317) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429410854 142941085X 9781280530517 1280530510 9780199727117 0199727112 9780199853274 0199853274 0195057902 9780195057904 0195129075 9780195129076 |