Book Of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language And Politics; Author: Harding, Susan Friend; Paperback

Author: Harding, Susan Friend
Paperback; 10 Halftones
352 pages
Published: July 2001
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0691089582

Some 50 million adult Americans are born-again Christians, and in the 1980s they burst into the political arena with stunning force. Gone was the image of old-fashioned fundamentalism andits anti-worldly, separatist philosophy. Under the leadership of the Reverend Jerry Falwell and his allied preachers, they claimed new cultural territory and refashioned themselves in the public arena. Susan Harding, a cultural anthropologist, set out to understand the significance of this new cultural movement. Focusing on how Falwell and his co-pastors used the Bible's language to inspire and transform, she presents the most original and thorough examination of contemporary Christian fundamentalism to date.The Book of Jerry Falwell is a fascinating work of cultural analysis, a rare accounPresents the most original and thorough examination of contemporary Christian fundamentalism to date. This volume presents an examination of Christian fundamentalism. Reverend Jerry Falwell and his co-pastors were pivotal figures in the movement. It is on them that the author focuses, and, in particular, their use of the Bible's language.