The Roots of Fundamentalism. British and American Millenarianism 1800-1930

Abstract

Ernest R. Sandeen's The Roots of remains a landmark work in the history of religion. A National Book Award finalist, it 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.

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