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Proto-Fundamentalism and Drinking Proto-Fundamentalism and Drinking
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Preaching Prohibition Preaching Prohibition
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Fundamentalists in Post-Prohibition America Fundamentalists in Post-Prohibition America
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Generational Tensions Generational Tensions
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Conclusion Conclusion
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22 Alcohol
Get accessJoe Coker is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Religion at Baylor University and teaches the history of Christianity. He is the author of Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement (2007) and contributor to Prohibition’s Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth About America’s Anti-Alcohol Crusade (2020). He also serves as senior editor for the journal Baptist History & Heritage.
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Published:20 November 2023
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Abstract
Both Christian fundamentalism and the national prohibition of alcohol were movements that came of age simultaneously in America during the 1910s and 1920s, though both movements had roots that sank deep into the previous century. With its emphasis upon individual sin and salvation, fundamentalism wed naturally with the anti-alcohol movement and most fundamentalist churches and leaders consistently denounced even the moderate consumption of alcohol throughout the twentieth century. Deviation from this embedded tradition began to appear in the early decades of the twenty-first century, however, primarily driven by fundamentalist millennials who questioned whether this attitude towards alcohol was not more culturally influenced than biblically based. Recent evidence suggests that the upcoming generation of fundamentalists seem likely to continue this trend away from teetotalism.
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