| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Fundamentalists in the City: Conflict and Division in Boston's Churches, 1885–1950. By Margaret Lamberts Bendroth. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. x, 250 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-517390-2.)

Historical investigation of Protestant Fundamentalism hit a speed bump in 1980 with the publication of George M. Marsden's magisterial Fundamentalism and American Culture. The problem was not the book's defects, which were few, but that it was a historical synthesis written before scholars had put together a sufficient series of monographic studies on which to construct such a summary. Consequently, for the last quarter of a century, Marsden's interpretation has been the standard against which historians of conservative Protestantism evaluate their subjects, even when they explore people, events, organizations, or ideas that either do not show up or receive only a few pages in the 1980 book.

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