Maiden, John
(2013). Fundamentalism and Anti-Catholicism among British Evangelicals in the 1920s.
In: Bebbington, David and Jones, David Ceri eds.
Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism: the experience of the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century.
Oxford University Press, (In Press).
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Abstract
This chapter contributes to the ongoing debate about the relationship between fundamentalism and evangelicalism. It assesses the ways in which anti-Catholicism shaped British fundamentalism during the interwar period, refering to the framework provided by Marty and Appelby in their groundbreaking Fundamentalism Project. It shows how anti-Catholicism influenced British fundamentalism’s reactionary-militant outlook, its millenialism, its naming, dramatising and mythologizing of enemies and its celebration of distinctiveness. However, it also shows how anti-Catholicism fostered a wider sense of unity within evangelicalism and a determination to protect their denominations from 'Rome'. Thus anti-Catholicism also acted as a break on separatist tendencies in British evangelicalism, in constrast to the dynamics of evangelical fundamentalism in the US.
| Item Type: |
Book Chapter
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| Copyright Holders: |
2013 John Maiden |
| ISBN: |
0-19-966483-8, 978-0-19-966483-2 |
| Keywords: |
evangelicalism; fundamentalism; interwar period |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > Religious Studies |
| Item ID: |
30589 |
| Depositing User: |
John Maiden
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| Date Deposited: |
23 Dec 2011 11:50 |
| Last Modified: |
10 May 2013 10:47 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/30589 |
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