The volume uncovers voices from the Black community that embraced the doctrinal tenets of the movement and, in many cases, explicitly self-identified as fundamentalists.
But did this major religious perspective really stop cold in its tracks at the color line?īlack Fundamentalists challenges the idea that fundamentalism was an exclusively white phenomenon. To this day, the word “fundamentalist” often conjures the image of a fire-breathing preacher-strident, unyielding in conviction.
Reveals the role of Black Fundamentalists during the early part of the twentieth centuryĪs the modernist-fundamentalist controversy came to a head in the early twentieth century, an image of the “fighting fundamentalist” was imprinted on the American cultural consciousness.
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