RT Book
T1 Antifundamentalism in modern America
A1 Watt, David Harrington 1957-
A2 Watt, David Harrington 1957-
LA English
PP Ithaca London
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/893030716
AB 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
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CN BL238
SN 978-1-5017-0854-1
SN 1-5017-0854-6
K1 Religious Fundamentalism : History
K1 Religious Fundamentalism : History : United States
K1 Religion And Politics : United States : United States : History
K1 Religion And Politics : United States
K1 Religious Fundamentalism : United States : History
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K1 RELIGION ; Essays
K1 RELIGION ; Reference
K1 RELIGION ; Fundamentalism
K1 Religion And Politics
K1 Religious Fundamentalism
K1 History
K1 United States
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