The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millenarianism, 1800-1930

ISBN-13: 9780226734682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 336 str.

Ernest R. Sandeen

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Ernest Sandeen s "Roots of Fundamentalism" remains a landmark work in the history of religion. A National Book Award finalist, it was the first full-length study to present an intellectual historical critique of the Fundamentalist movement in America. Sandeen argues that our understanding of this movement has been grievously distorted by the Fundamentalist-Modernist debate of the 1920s, as symbolized by William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial. Rather than viewing Fundamentalism as a chiefly sociological phenomenon of the 1920s, Sandeen argues from a transatlantic perspective that the Fundamentalist movement was a self-conscious, structured, long-lived dynamic entity that had its origins in Anglo-American millenarian thought and movements of the nineteenth century.
"All historians need to face the issues this book] raises. Serious theological discussion of Fundamentalism tends to be neglected because it is intellectually unfashionable: Mr. Sandeen shows that for the historian such neglect is a luxury he cannot afford. David M. Thompson, "English Historical Review """ Sandeen s new approach to Fundamentalism eschews the common tendency to see the movement as parochially American, rurally based, and essentially a phenomenon of the twenties. . . . It is a highly valuable addition to American and more singularly to comparative theological history. William R. Hutchinson, "Journal of American History""