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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Joel A. Carpenter. Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism. New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. Pp. xiv, 335. $30.00.

Joel A. Carpenter's long-awaited book on the history of American fundamentalism from 1930 to 1950 is a superb addition to the historiography of American religious history. For a variety of reasons, ranging from intellectual snobbery to wishful thinking, American journalists and historians long pictured fundamentalism as an antimodern aberration of the 1920s that more or less disappeared during the 1930s. Carpenter's sweeping study should lay that myth to rest. Indeed, fundamentalism thrived during the 1930s, when much of the American religious landscape was as forlorn as the nation's depressed economy. 1

Not the least of the virtues in this book is Carpenter's precise definition of the term fundamentalism. Like the word Puritan, the term fundamentalism has been used so loosely, even by scholars, that the well-defined group of evangelical Christians who considered themselves fundamentalists became indistinguishable from other conservative American Protestants. By the 1930s, Carpenter points out, "fundamentalism no longer signified a broad federation of conservative cobelligerents. The movement had been pared back to those whose roots, by and large, were in the older, interdenominational, premillennialist, and 'Bible school' network" (p. 8). Their contemporaries, both fellow-travellers and critics, understood who these fundamentalists were and had an inkling that they were important. . . .

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