Serving the Word
Subtitle: Literalism in America from the Pulpit to the Bench
Publisher: New Press
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781565844124
Subjects: Christianity; Comparative religion; Social & cultural anthropology; 20th century; Current Affairs; Church And Society; United States; Law; Sociology; USA; Fundamentalism; Anthropology - Cultural; Legal History; Bible; American; General; Constitutional Law; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Interpretation and construction
Description: "Vincent Crapanzano, one of the country's leading anthropologists, has written a book that examines the prevalence of fundamentalism and literalism and the unexpected forms they take in modern America, in both religious and secular life." "Serving the Word is a look at literalism as a modern belief system, and analyzes its place in two seemingly contrasting fields.".

"Crapanzano makes a claim that the attraction to literal certainty the we associate with fringe fanaticism is in fact deeply embedded in American culture."--BOOK JACKET.