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Fighting Fundamentalist

Carl McIntire and the Politicization of American Fundamentalism [Hardback]

by Markku Ruotsila

    • Author

      Markku Ruotsila

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Oxford University Press

    • Published

      January 2016

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      For most of his sixty-year career, the Reverend Carl McIntire was at the center of controversy. The best known and most influential of the fundamentalist radio broadcasters and anticommunists of the Cold War era, his many enemies depicted him as a dangerous far rightist, a racist, or a "McCarthyite" opportunist engaged in red-baiting for personal profit. Despised and hounded by liberals, revered by fundamentalists, and distrusted by the center, he became a lightning rod in the early American culture wars. Markku Ruotsila's Fighting Fundamentalist, the first scholarly biography of McIntire, peels off the accumulated layers of caricature and makes a case for restoring McIntire to his place as one of the most consequential religious leaders in the twentieth-century United States. The book traces McIntire's life from his early twentieth-century childhood in Oklahoma to his death in 2002. From his discipleship under J.
      Gresham Machen during the fundamentalist-modernist controversy, through his fifty-year pastorate in Collingswood, NJ, and his presidency of the International Council of Christian Churches, McIntire-Ruotsila shows-stands out as the most important fundamentalist of his time. Based on exhaustive research in fifty-two archival collections-including the recently opened collection of the Carl McIntire papers and never-before seen FBI files-Ruotsila looks beyond the McIntire of legend. Instead, Ruostila argues, McIntire was a serious theological, political, and economic combatant, a tireless organizer who pioneered the public theologies, inter-faith alliances, and political methods that would give birth to the Christian Right. The moral values agenda of the 1970s and after would not have existed without the anti-communist and ant-New Deal activism that McIntire inaugurated in the 1930s.

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      • Author

        Markku Ruotsila

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Oxford University Press

      • Published

        January 2016

      • Weight

        726g

      • Page Count

        392

      • Dimensions

        155 x 237 x 31 mm

      • ISBN

        9780199372997

      • ISBN-10

        0199372993

      • Eden Code

        4347084

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      • Author/Creator: Markku Ruotsila

      • ISBN: 9780199372997

      • Publisher: Oxford University Press

      • Release Date: January 2016

      • Weight: 726g

      • Dimensions: 155 x 237 x 31 mm

      • Eden Code: 4347084


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