Christian Fundamentalism and the Culture of Disenchantment
Armed with philosophical and methodological savvy together with an outsider's perspective, Paul Maltby has produced a most impressive study of fundamentalism in the United States.Christian Fundamentalism and the Culture of Disenchantmenthelps us understand the counterintuitive appeal of fundamentalism and also proposes a constructive response.(Randall Balmer, Dartmouth College, author ofThe Making of Evangelicalism)Paul Maltby has written a sophisticated, original study contrasting postmodernism and fundamentalism as antithetical currents in contemporary American culture. Writing from the perspective of the culture of disenchantment, and bringing together scholarship from a broad range of disciplines, Maltby offers a persuasive and original critique of Christian fundamentalism in America.(Brian D. Ingraffia, Calvin College, author ofPostmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God's Shadow)