Record #:

20917

Author(s):

Gatewood, Willard B., Jr.

Abstract:

This article examines the rise in Religious (Protestant) Fundamentalism in reaction to the wave of secularism and irreverence that arose after the First World War and finally ignited by the controversy over Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the crusade to protect the \"old fashioned Christian Commonwealth\" from the \"forces of the antichrist\" took hold during this period.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 42 Issue 3, July 1965, p275-290, f

Subject(s):

Protestant fundamentalism