The hidden history of the historic fundamentalists, 1933 - 1948: reconsidering the historic fundamentalists' response to the upheavals, hardships, and horrors of the 1930s and 1940s

Conventional scholars portray the historic fundamentalists as theologically challenged, politically indifferent, social uncaring, and economically a bare step above Social Darwinian Neanderthal, accuses Owen (history, The Master's College, Santa Clarita, California). Inspired to vindicate his s...

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Main Author: Owen, Jim (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Lanham, Md. [u.a.] Univ. Press of America 2004
In:Year: 2004
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Fundamentalism / Historiography / History 1933-1948
IxTheo Classification:KBP America
KBQ North America
Further subjects:B Modernist-fundamentalist controversy
B Historiography Religious aspects
B Fundamentalism
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Summary:Conventional scholars portray the historic fundamentalists as theologically challenged, politically indifferent, social uncaring, and economically a bare step above Social Darwinian Neanderthal, accuses Owen (history, The Master's College, Santa Clarita, California). Inspired to vindicate his spiritual antecedents and armed with the tools of his pr
In this book, Jim Owen examines historic fundamentalist magazines and journals to determine why there is such a radical disparity between what historians have written and what the historic fundamentalists actually did. Through Owens investigation, we see a compassionate movement very involved--socially and politically--during the Great Depression, and a group that was vocal in combating anti-Semitism and denouncing the horrors of Nazi persecution.
ISBN:0761828974