Research Catalog

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Description

1. xvii, 165 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

1. As regards both academic historians and popular understandings since the rise of the Religious Right in the 1980s, analysis of American fundamentalism has neglected a large body of literature about gender roles and social conventions. Betty A. DeBerg's groundbreaking study fills that important gap, analyzing the roots and character of fundamentalism in light of rapid changes and severe disruptions in gender-role ideology and actual social behavior in America between 1880 and 1930. Unlike interpreters such as George Marsden -- who has seen the contemporary Religious Right's concerns over feminism, abortion, and the breakdown of the family as recent developments -- DeBerg convincingly argues that these concerns were central in the "first wave of American fundamentalism."--Back cover.

Subject

1. 1800-1999
2. Women in Christianity -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
3. Women in Christianity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
4. Fundamentalism
5. United States -- Church history -- 19th century
6. United States -- Church history -- 20th century
7. United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918
8. United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945

Genre/Form

1. Church history
2. History

Contents

1. Foreword / Valarie Ziegler -- Preface to the reprint edition -- Preface -- Introduction -- Late Victorian gender roles -- Conservative Protestantism and the separate spheres -- The divinized home -- Reclaiming the church for men -- Fundamentalists and the flapper -- Fundamentalist theology and gender roles -- Religion and the gender agenda -- Appendix : Primary sources.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Language

1. English

Note

1. New ed.
2. Originally published: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c1990.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-159) and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain