The Scopes Trial in Perspective

Chapters in this book

1. I-XIV I
2. Evangelicalism as a Democratic Movement 3
3. Toward a Historical Interpretation of the Origins of Fundamentalism 19
4. Fundamentalism as an American Phenomenon, A Comparison with English Evangelicalism 37
5. Fundamentalist Institutions and the Rise of Evangelical Protestantism, 1929–1942 55
6. William Jennings Bryan: Statesman – Fundamentalist 69
7. William Jennings Bryan, Evolution, and the Fundamentalist – Modernist Controversy 98
8. The Scopes Trial in Perspective 118
9. Political Fundamentalism and Popular Democracy in the 1920’s 129
10. Strident Voices in Kansas between the Wars 144
11. Defense of the Faith: J. Frank Norris and Texas Fundamentalism, 1920–1929 170
12. Our Hope: An American Fundamentalist Journal and the Holocaust, 1937–1945 190
13. Baptist Fundamentalism: A Cultural Interpretation 205
14. Independent Baptists: From Sectarian Minority to “Moral Majority” 214
15. Fundamentalism at Harvard: The Case of Edward John Carnell 228
16. The Creationists 248
17. The New Christian Right, America, and the Kingdom of God 281
18. Religious Broadcasting and the Mobilization of the New Christian Right 295
19. Copyright Information 319
20. Index 321