The Roots of Fundamentalism - British and American Millenarianism, 1800-1930
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Ernest R. Sandeen (Author)
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Ernest R. Sandeen's "The 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.
About the Author
Ernest R. Sandeen (1931-82) was the James Wallace Professor of History and codirector of the Living Historical Museum at Macalester College.
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- Contributor: Ernest R. Sandeen
- Imprint: University of Chicago Press
- ISBN13: 9780226734682
- Number of Pages: 336
- Packaged Dimensions: 158x230x22mm
- Packaged Weight: 536
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Release Date: 2008-11-14
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Ernest R. Sandeen (1931-82) was the James Wallace Professor of History and codirector of the Living Historical Museum at Macalester College.
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