Fundamentalism and education in the Scopes era
Subtitle: God, Darwin, and the roots of America's culture wars
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, USA
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.