Fundamentalism and Gender

By: Hawley, John Stratton

Book Overview

Fundamentalism, as the word implies, is about getting back to basics, and for Americans this has meant getting back to God's word as proclaimed in the Bible. Yet the issues that American fundamentalists have most hotly contested--abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment--have little to do with scripture per se. Why are these so central? Perhaps it is because the real fundamentals of fundamentalism are social, not textual. Fundamentalism often seems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195082621
• ISBN13: 9780195082623
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"