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The Fundamentalist Mentality The Fundamentalist Mentality
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Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism
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A Case Study: The Alpha Movement A Case Study: The Alpha Movement
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Historiographical Trajectories Historiographical Trajectories
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The Shape of This Handbook The Shape of This Handbook
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Suggested Reading Suggested Reading
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References References
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1 Defining and Interpreting Christian Fundamentalism
Get accessAndrew Atherstone is Latimer Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and a member of Oxford University’s Faculty of Theology and Religion. He is the author of Repackaging Christianity: Alpha and the Building of a Global Brand (2022), and co-editor of Making Evangelical History: Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past (2019) and Transatlantic Charismatic Renewal, c.1950–2000 (2021).
David Ceri Jones is Reader in Early Modern History at Aberystwyth University, the co-editor of George Whitefield: Life, Context and Legacy (2016) and Making Evangelical History: Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past (2019), and co-author of The Elect Methodists: Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735–1811 (2012) and A History of Christianity in Wales (2022).
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Published:20 November 2023
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Abstract
Much ink has been spilled trying to define fundamentalism and distinguish it from the wider evangelical movement. While this introductory chapter surveys these attempts at categorization in some detail, it does not seek to offer a new or composite definition of the movement. Rather it reflects on some of the reasons for the resurgence of scholarly interest in fundamentalism, especially since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington DC in 2001, and describes how historians and others have understood the fundamentalist mentality. It then looks at the porous relationship between evangelicalism and fundamentalism, and the ways in which fundamentalism is used as a polemic category (by means of a case study of reactions to the hugely popular Alpha course, launched in 1993), before charting some of the main historiographical approaches to the subject from the 1930s to the present day.
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