Antifundamentalism in Modern America

by David Harrington Watt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801448271
• ISBN13: 9780801448270
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher