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Robert G. LeTourneau, Wealth Creation, and Fundamentalist Historiography Robert G. LeTourneau, Wealth Creation, and Fundamentalist Historiography
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Central Baptist Church, Suburban California, and Fundamentalist Historiography Central Baptist Church, Suburban California, and Fundamentalist Historiography
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Concerned Women for America, Class Warfare, and Fundamentalist Historiography Concerned Women for America, Class Warfare, and Fundamentalist Historiography
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30 Class
Get accessDarren Dochuk is Andrew V. Tackes College Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is the author of From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (2011), and Anointed With Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America (2019).
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Published:20 November 2023
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Abstract
Fundamentalism’s class composition has always vexed observers. Just what class label, exactly, is best applied to American Christianity’s warring conservatives? Resisting both a rigid ‘class model’ of analysis, which privileges economics over culture and limits fundamentalists to the lower class, and a ‘culture model’ that stresses values over economics, this chapter claims fundamentalism is best understood in hybrid terms. Drawing on sociologist Thaddeus Coreno, it assumes a ‘Class Culture Model’ which posits that fundamentalism is ‘the product of both structural and cultural forces’ and representative of the lower strata in each class. As a survey of fundamentalist history and historiography illustrates, fundamentalists typically occupy the lower tier of the business, middle, lower middle, and working classes. In that shared station they demonstrate common distaste for ‘elites’ and the modern, liberal order that seems to grant those elites privilege and authority. Through a shared sense of subordination, fundamentalists thus arm themselves with a grievance politics that collectivizes their plight and projects it onto worries about society’s failing social fabric and secular drift. That class-culture posture has long fuelled fundamentalist engagement with American society.
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