Fundamentalism and education in the Scopes era
Subtitle: God, Darwin, and the roots of America's culture wars
By: Adam Laats
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780230623729
Description: The battles over schools that surrounded the famous Scopes "monkey" trial in 1925 were about much more than evolution. Fundamentalists fought to maintain cultural control of education. As this book reveals for the first time, the successes and the failures of these fundamentalist campaigns transformed both the fundamentalist movement and the nature of education in America. In turn, those transformations determined many of the positions of the "culture wars" that raged throughout the twentieth century. --from publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-246) and index.
Table of contents: title: A new kind of Protestant; title: What's in a name; title: Campus skirmishes; title: Early legislative battles; title: Of monkeys and men; title: School legislation after Scopes; title: College controversies after Scopes; title: Fundamentalists, bibles, and schooling in the 1920s; title: Fundamentalists and the new fundamentalism; title: Fundamentalists outside the new fundamentalism.