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Marsden to discuss fundamentalism and politics, March 6
Posted March 2, 2006; 08:53 p.m.
"How 'Otherworldly' American Fundamentalists Became Political" is
the title of a talk set for 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 6, in McCosh 50.
George Marsden, the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the
University of Notre Dame, will present the lecture, which is sponsored
by the Center for the Study of Religion.
Marsden teaches American religious and intellectual history, and is an
expert on the history and present state of fundamentalism in America.
He is the author of "Jonathan Edwards: A Life," which won the 2004
Bancroft Prize for Distinguished Books in American History and the 2005
Grawemeyer Award in Religion. He also wrote "Fundamentalism and
American Culture: The Shaping of 20th-Century Evangelicalism,
1870-1925," which was named one of Christianity Today's 100 "Books of
the Century."
A second edition of "Fundamentalism and American Culture" has just been
released by Oxford University Press. It includes a major new chapter
that compares the fundamentalism since the 1970s to the fundamentalism
of the 1920s, looking particularly at the extraordinary growth in
political emphasis and power of the more recent movement.