Fundamentalism category: 104 books
Old-Time Religion Embracing Modernist Culture
American Fundamentalism between the Wars
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Old-Time Religion Embracing Modernist Culture focuses on the founding generation of American fundamentalism in the 1920s and 1930s and their interactions with modernity. While there were culture wars, there was also an embrace. Through a book culture, fostered by liberal Protestants, and thriving...
Jehovah Lives in Brooklyn
Jehovah's Witnesses as a Model of Fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2000
The book Jehovah Lives in Brooklyn: Jehovah's Witnesses as a Model of Fundamentalism describes some of the odd beliefs of this cult, and also gives a psychosocial overview of its place in society, its meaning, and its results. It discusses the effects of cult-psychology on otherwise well-adjusted...
The Family
The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
They insist they are just a group of friends, yet they funnel millions of dollars through tax-free corporations. They claim to disdain politics, but congressmen of both parties describe them as the most influential religious organization in Washington. They say they are not Christians, but simply...
Islam Beyond the Violent Jihadis
An Optimistic Muslim Speaks
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Islam has been corrupted. A virulent strain of the religion manifests itself in bloodthirsty mutations such as Boko Haram in Nigeria and the terrifying spectre of ISIS. But behind the atrocities and turmoil lie many different versions and visions of Islam, each struggling to survive in a rapidly changing...
Guaranteed Pure
The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
American evangelicalism has long walked hand in hand with modern consumer capitalism. Timothy Gloege shows us why, through an engaging story about God and big business at the Moody Bible Institute. Founded in Chicago by shoe-salesman-turned-revivalist Dwight Lyman Moody in 1889, the institute became...
Mystical Science and Practical Religion
Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh Discourse on Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Mystical Science and Practical Religion examines the religious discourse employed by Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh applied science professionals and students, mainly engineers and Information Technology (IT) workers. Although applied scientists, especially immigrants to the United States, have shown high...
Stations of the Cross
Adorno and Christian Right Radio
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2000
Since the 1970s, American society has provided especially fertile ground for the growth of the Christian right and its influence on both political and cultural discourse. In Stations of the Cross political theorist Paul Apostolidis shows how a critical component of this movement’s popular culture—evangelical...
In the Name of God
The True Story of the Fight to Save Children from Faith-Healing Homicide
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
An anonymous caller tells a detective in a small Oregon town that a woman has just bitten off a man's finger. But the man is not the victim, the caller says. The woman is. She's being held against her will by a group of faith-healing fanatics who are trying to cure her depression with violent exorcisms.
The...
by Susan L. Trollinger, William Vance Trollinger Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
On May 28, 2007, the Creation Museum opened in Petersburg, Kentucky. Aimed at scientifically demonstrating that the universe was created less than ten thousand years ago by a Judeo-Christian god, the museum is hugely popular, attracting millions of visitors over the past eight years. Surrounded by...
Being the Chosen
Exploring a Christian Fundamentalist Worldview
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Being the Chosen explores Christian fundamentalism in the USA, focusing particularly on the belief system of Protestant fundamentalists. It establishes the key characteristics of the Protestant worldview, investigating the degrees to which these are adhered to amongst different groups and how such...
Atti apostolici
Forieri di violenza
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 5, 2018
L’autore, dopo aver scritto i saggi “Dio, controstoria di un mito”, “Religioni, uno scandalo millenario” e “L’inganno dei Vangeli”, approfondisce ulteriormente il tema del Cristo elaborato, cui unisce la lunga e tragica carrellata del messianismo bimillenario, sconvolgente in gran...
by James Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This often humorous, occasionally sad and emotional memoir begins in the 1800's; but most of the action takes place on post-war Chalmers Street in the small, predominantly protestant Canadian textile town of Galt in Southern Ontario. Older brother Jim is the lead voice with numerous injections, in...
The Armageddon Factor
The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In her new book, award-winning journalist Marci McDonald draws back the curtain on the mysterious world of the right-wing Christian nationalist movement in Canada and its many ties to the Conservative government of Stephen Harper.
To most Canadians, the politics of the United States — where fundamentalist...
Quiverfull
Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Kathryn Joyce's fascinating introduction to the world of the patriarchy movement and Quiverfull families examines the twenty-first-century women and men who proclaim self-sacrifice and submission as model virtues of womanhood—and as modes of warfare on behalf of Christ. Here, women live within stringently...