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Fundamentalism in America

Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion [Paperback]

by Phil Melling

    • Author

      Phil Melling

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Edinburgh University Press

    • Published

      November 1999

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      This important book challenges the idea that religious fundamentalism can adequately be understood as a paranoid, xenophobic faith. It demonstrates instead how it draws upon a long tradition of evangelical and millennialist scripture in its engagement with issues at the spiritual and ethical core of postmodernity in America. The author examines the contradictions of fundamentalism as they appear in prophecy, sermon, film and fiction, including work by Gore Vidal, Peter Matthiesen, Thom Jones, Alison Lurie and Pete Dexter. He shows, in an original reading, how scripture, race and politics have combined in the conservative opposition to the Clinton presidency in the writings of influential figures such as Pat Robertson, Salem Kirban and Hal Lindsey. Clinton's failure, in this view, had less to do with sexual depravity than his abandonment as a Southern Methodist of the Church's evangelising mission, so essential in fundamentalist belief to the advent of the millennium.In its wide-ranging consideration of the rhetoric of the 'New World Order', the literature of prophecy, Cold War films, tele-evangelism, cross-border texts and postnationalist writing, this book provides a vital and compelling account of the present crisis in religious and national identity in the United States.

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      • Author

        Phil Melling

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Edinburgh University Press

      • Published

        November 1999

      • Weight

        386g

      • Page Count

        256

      • Dimensions

        156 x 234 x 23 mm

      • ISBN

        9780748609789

      • ISBN-10

        0748609784

      • Eden Code

        2545568

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      • Author/Creator: Phil Melling

      • ISBN: 9780748609789

      • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

      • Release Date: November 1999

      • Weight: 386g

      • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 23 mm

      • Eden Code: 2545568


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