Coming up from a dispute between conservative American Protestants within the early twentieth century, the time period fundamentalist has been utilized lately to quite a lot of humans - Christian, Jewish and Muslim - who've revolted opposed to what they see because the heresies of the trendy international. How do quite a few fundamentalisms happen themselves, and what have they got in universal? To what quantity is fundamentalism a burgeoning worldwide phenomenon, and to what volume a chain of remoted expressions of spiritual zealotry? those are the various questions addressed during this publication. Essays featured contain Leo P. Ribuffo who analyses evangelical Protestantism in the USA from the overdue nineteenth century throughout the Nineteen Fifties and Steve Bruce who deals a critique of the recent Christian correct, which emerged within the Eighties, less than the management of Jerry Falwell.
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