Fighting Fundamentalist

Carl McIntire and the Politicization of American Fundamentalism

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Church, Church History, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century
Cover of the book Fighting Fundamentalist by Markku Ruotsila, Oxford University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Markku Ruotsila ISBN: 9780199373017
Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication: November 2, 2015
Imprint: Oxford University Press Language: English
Author: Markku Ruotsila
ISBN: 9780199373017
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: November 2, 2015
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Language: English

For most of his sixty-year career, the Reverend Carl McIntire was at the center of controversy. The best-known and most influential of the fundamentalist radio broadcasters and anticommunists of the Cold War era, his many enemies depicted him as a dangerous far rightist, a racist, or a "McCarthyite" opportunist engaged in red-baiting for personal profit. Despised and hounded by liberals, revered by fundamentalists, and distrusted by the center, he became a lightning rod in the early days of America's culture wars. Markku Ruotsila's Fighting Fundamentalist, the first scholarly biography of McIntire, peels off the accumulated layers of caricature and makes a case for restoring McIntire to his place as one of the most consequential religious leaders in the twentieth-century United States. Ruotsila traces McIntire's life from his early twentieth-century childhood in Oklahoma to his death in 2002. From his discipleship under J. Gresham Machen during the fundamentalist-modernist controversy, through his fifty-year pastorate in Collingswood, New Jersey, and his presidency of the International Council of Christian Churches, McIntire, Ruotsila shows, stands out as the most important fundamentalist of his time. Drawing on exhaustive research in fifty-two archival collections-including the recently opened collection of the Carl McIntire papers and never-before-seen FBI files-Ruotsila looks beyond the McIntire of legend to discover a serious theological, political, and economic combatant, a tireless organizer who pioneered the public theologies, inter-faith alliances, and political methods that would give birth to the Christian Right. The moral values agenda of the 1970s and after would not have existed, Ruotsila shows, without the anti-communist and anti-New Deal activism that McIntire inaugurated. Indeed, twentieth-century American religious and political history were profoundly shaped by forces McIntire set in motion. Fighting Fundamentalist tells the overlooked story of McIntire and the movement he inspired.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

For most of his sixty-year career, the Reverend Carl McIntire was at the center of controversy. The best-known and most influential of the fundamentalist radio broadcasters and anticommunists of the Cold War era, his many enemies depicted him as a dangerous far rightist, a racist, or a "McCarthyite" opportunist engaged in red-baiting for personal profit. Despised and hounded by liberals, revered by fundamentalists, and distrusted by the center, he became a lightning rod in the early days of America's culture wars. Markku Ruotsila's Fighting Fundamentalist, the first scholarly biography of McIntire, peels off the accumulated layers of caricature and makes a case for restoring McIntire to his place as one of the most consequential religious leaders in the twentieth-century United States. Ruotsila traces McIntire's life from his early twentieth-century childhood in Oklahoma to his death in 2002. From his discipleship under J. Gresham Machen during the fundamentalist-modernist controversy, through his fifty-year pastorate in Collingswood, New Jersey, and his presidency of the International Council of Christian Churches, McIntire, Ruotsila shows, stands out as the most important fundamentalist of his time. Drawing on exhaustive research in fifty-two archival collections-including the recently opened collection of the Carl McIntire papers and never-before-seen FBI files-Ruotsila looks beyond the McIntire of legend to discover a serious theological, political, and economic combatant, a tireless organizer who pioneered the public theologies, inter-faith alliances, and political methods that would give birth to the Christian Right. The moral values agenda of the 1970s and after would not have existed, Ruotsila shows, without the anti-communist and anti-New Deal activism that McIntire inaugurated. Indeed, twentieth-century American religious and political history were profoundly shaped by forces McIntire set in motion. Fighting Fundamentalist tells the overlooked story of McIntire and the movement he inspired.

More books from Oxford University Press

Cover of the book Learning While Caring by Markku Ruotsila
Cover of the book Weather, Macroweather, and the Climate by Markku Ruotsila
Cover of the book Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights by Markku Ruotsila
Cover of the book Grounded Theory and Grounded Theorizing by Markku Ruotsila
Cover of the book The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction by Markku Ruotsila
Cover of the book "Daddy's Gone to War" by Markku Ruotsila
Cover of the book John F. Kennedy Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library by Markku Ruotsila
Cover of the book Darwin's Roadmap to the Curriculum by Markku Ruotsila
Cover of the book Divine Inspirations by Markku Ruotsila
Cover of the book Racing to the Top by Markku Ruotsila
Cover of the book The Drama of DNA by Markku Ruotsila
Cover of the book The Performance of Politics:Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power by Markku Ruotsila
Cover of the book To the Ends of the Earth: Pentecostalism and the Transformation of World Christianity by Markku Ruotsila
Cover of the book Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Markku Ruotsila
Cover of the book Malcolm X at Oxford Union by Markku Ruotsila
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy