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Watt, David Harrington, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Antifundamentalism in Modern America / David Harrington Watt. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (240 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Skeptics -- 2. Defenders -- 3. The First Fundamentalists -- 4. Invention -- 5. Ratification -- 6. The Dustbin of History -- 7. Reinvention -- 8. Zenith -- Conclusion -- Chronology of Events -- Chronology of Interpretations -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star David Harrington Watt's Antifundamentalism in Modern America gives us a pathbreaking account of the role that the fear of fundamentalism has played—and continues to play—in American culture. Fundamentalism has never been a neutral category of analysis, and Watt scrutinizes the various political purposes that the concept has been made to serve. In 1920, the conservative Baptist writer Curtis Lee Laws coined the word "fundamentalists." Watt examines the antifundamentalist polemics of Harry Emerson Fosdick, Talcott Parsons, Stanley Kramer, and Richard Hofstadter, which convinced many Americans that religious fundamentalists were almost by definition backward, intolerant, and anti-intellectual and that fundamentalism was a dangerous form of religion that had no legitimate place in the modern world. For almost fifty years, the concept of fundamentalism was linked almost exclusively to Protestant Christians. The overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the establishment of an Islamic republic led to a more elastic understanding of the nature of fundamentalism. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Americans became accustomed to using fundamentalism as a way of talking about Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists, as well as Christians. Many Americans came to see Protestant fundamentalism as an expression of a larger phenomenon that was wreaking havoc all over the world. Antifundamentalism in Modern America is the first book to provide an overview of the way that the fear of fundamentalism has shaped U.S. culture, and it will lead readers to rethink their understanding of what fundamentalism is and what it does. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Religion and politics United States. Religious fundamentalism History. Religious fundamentalism United States History. Political Science & Political History. Religious Studies. U.S. History. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh antifundamentalism, fear of fundamentalism, American culture, global fundamentalism, American religious history, American history, history of comparative religion, twenty-first century. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110665871 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501708541 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501708541 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501708541/original |
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