The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millenarianism, 1800-1930 - Hardcover

Ernest R. Sandeen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226734676 ISBN 13: 9780226734675

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1970

Synopsis

Ernest Sandeenâ s 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 â was a self-conscious, structured, long-lived dynamic entityâ that had its origins in Anglo-American millenarian thought and movements of the nineteenth century.
         "All historians need to face the issues [this book] raises. Serious theological discussion of Fundamentalism tends to be neglected because it is intellectually unfashionable: Mr. Sandeen shows that for the historian such neglect is a luxury he cannot afford.â â David M. Thompson, English Historical Review  â Sandeenâ s â new approach to Fundamentalismâ eschews the common tendency to see the movement as parochially American, rurally based, and essentially a phenomenon of the twenties. . . . It is a highly valuable addition to American andâ more singularlyâ to comparative theological history.â â William R. Hutchinson, Journal of American History 

About this title

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.

Review:

"All historians need to face the issues [this book] raises. Serious theological discussion of Fundamentalism tends to be neglected because it is intellectually unfashionable: Mr. Sandeen shows that for the historian such neglect is a luxury he cannot afford." - David M. Thompson, English Historical Review "Sandeen's 'new approach to Fundamentalism' eschews the common tendency to see the movement as parochially American, rurally based, and essentially a phenomenon of the twenties.... It is a highly valuable addition to American and - more singularly - to comparative theological history." - William R. Hutchinson, Journal of American History"

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0226734676
• ISBN 13: 9780226734675
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 348