The hidden history of the historic fundamentalists, 1933-1948
Subtitle: reconsidering the historic fundamentalists' response to the upheavals, hardships, and horrors of the 1930s and 1940s
By: Jim Owen.
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Historiography -- Religious aspects.; Fundamentalism.; Modernist-fundamentalist controversy.
Description: Over the last forty years, historians' interpretations of the historic fundamentalists - circa the 1930s and '40s - have accused them of social and political indifference to the hardships people experienced during the Great Depression and the Holocaust. In this book, Jim Owen examines historic fundamentalist magazines and journals to determine why there is such a radical disparity between what historians have written and what historic fundamentalists actually did. Through Professor Owen's investigation, we see a compassionate movement very involved - socially and politically - during the Great Depression, and a group that was vocal in combating anti-Semitism and denouncing the horrors of Nazi persecution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.