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Book SynopsisChristian fundamentalism is a significant global movement which originally took its name from The Fundamentals, a series of booklets defending classic evangelical doctrines, published in the 1910s. The Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism traces the roots of fundamentalism from the late nineteenth century and explores the development of the movement up to the present day. Since its inception, fundamentalism has proved a highly contested category. By some the label is recognised as a badge of honour, by others a term of abuse. This volume does not offer a simple definition of fundamentalism. Rather, it acknowledges its many interpretative and definitional complexities, and allows multiple identities to jostle together under the ''fundamentalist'' label. The boundaries are porous between fundamentalism and conservative evangelicalism, so the Handbook includes analysis of some conservative expressions of Christianity which show fundamentalist characteristics, even in groups which r
Table of ContentsContributors 1: Andrew Atherstone and David Ceri Jones: Defining and Interpreting Christian Fundamentalism I: Historical Developments 2: Geoffrey R. Treloar: The Fundamentals 3: Josh McMullen: Big Tent Revivalism 4: Thomas Breimaier: A Fundamentalist Forerunner? C. H. Spurgeon and the Downgrade Controversy 5: Constance Areson Clark: The Scopes Trial 6: D. G. Hart: Princeton and Fundamentalism 7: Andrew R. Holmes: Fundamentalism in Interwar Northern Ireland 8: Gerald W. King: Fundamentalism and Early Pentecostalism 9: Elesha J. Coffman and Regina Wenger: Billy Graham, Fundamentalism and Neo-Evangelicalism 10: John Maiden: Fundamentalism and Charismatic Renewal 11: Andrew Christopher Smith: The Southern Baptist Convention 12: Amber Thomas Reynolds: Fundamentalist Magazine Publishing II: Fundamentalist Convictions 13: Paul C. Gutjahr: Biblical Inerrancy and Higher Criticism 14: Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr.: Creationism 15: Sean McGever: Conversion 16: Tom Schwanda: The Devotional Life of Fundamentalism 17: Markku Ruotsila: Ecumenism and Separatism 18: David Ceri Jones: Salvation and the 'Social Gospel' 19: Martin Spence: The End Times III: Fundamentalism and Personal Morality 20: Milton Gaither: Education in Home and School 21: Adam Laats: Higher Education 22: Joe Coker: Alcohol 23: Shawn David Young: Popular Music 24: Paul Emory Putz: Sport 25: Emily S. Johnson: Family and Gender 26: Suzanna Krivulskaya: Sex and Sexuality 27: Andrew R. Lewis: Abortion IV: Fundamentalism and the 'World' 28: Brian Stanley: Global Mission 29: Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews: Race and Civil Rights 30: Darren Dochuk: Class 31: Darren E. Grem: Business 32: Daniel K. Williams: The Christian Right 33: Brantley W. Gasaway: The Environment 34: Daniel G. Hummel: Israel and the Middle East 35: Christopher Douglas: Literature 36: Robert Glenn Howard and Megan L. Zahay: From the Television Age to the Digital Revolution V: Fundamentalist Futures 37: Andrew Atherstone: Escaping Fundamentalism 38: Mark P. Hutchinson: Globalized Fundamentalism Index
