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The book of jerry falwell will jar its readers again and againfrom its thoughtprovoking title to hardings account of falwells controversial fundraising techniques to her own encounter with the holy spirit. The fruit of her time is the book of jerry falwell, an exploration of the way words are used in the fundamentalist subculture though i am not sure if this is a designation harding herself uses, specifically in the ministry of one of modern fundamentalisms key figures, televangelist jerry falwell. Many of us expect perfection from americas religious leaders and then quickly pounce on them when they are inevitably revealed as no better than human. Fundamentalist language and politics by susan harding princeton university press 276 pp. May 15, 2007 susan friend harding, a professor of anthropology at the university of california santa cruz, studied falwell and his movement beginning in the 1980s, culminating in a book published in 2000, the. The book of jerry falwell is a fascinating work of cultural analysis, a rare account that takes fundamentalist christianity on its own terms and deepens our understanding of. Mar 06, 2000 susan friend hardings excellent anthropological study of bornagain christians is entitled, the book of jerry falwell. Harding took a look at the rise of fundamentalist evangelism in the book of jerry falwell. August 11, 1933 may 15, 2007 was an american southern baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist. The book of jerry falwell princeton university press. Fundamentalist language and politics new ed by harding, susan friend isbn. Religious leaders, such as jerry falwell, began invoking the language of individual rights to protect religous freedom bellah et al. The book of jerry falwell, writes harding, is a study of the language by which many fundamentalist protestants and their allies transformed themselves during the 1980s from a marginal, antiworldly, separatist people into a visible and vocal public force. Here biblical language is profoundly generative, living, and political.

Fundamentalist language and politics by susan friend harding at indigo. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Jerry falwell, american religious leader, televangelist, and founder of the moral majority, a political organization for the promotion of conservative social values. Falwell and his copastors were the pivotal figures in the movement. Susan friend harding is the author of the book of jerry falwell 3. Susan hardings book of jerry falwell tells the fabulous tale of falwells empire building and the rise of the moral majority in the 1980s through a densely textured ethnographic reading of people, institutions, media, and events.

Susan friend harding author of the book of jerry falwell. Susan hardings book of jerry falwell tells the fabulous tale of falwells empire building and the rise of the. He was the founding pastor of the thomas road baptist church, a megachurch in lynchburg, virginia. He also founded a fundamentalist christian university, lynchburg bible college later liberty university, in 1971. To write this book, she researched the world of fundamentalist christianity for some fifteen years, particularly the community of falwell s thomas road baptist church. Language and languages religious aspects christianity. Fundamentalist language and politics has 2 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace.

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Fundamentalist language and politics by susan friend harding. It is on them that harding focuses, and, in particular, their use of the bibles language. Fundamentalist language and politics, by susan friend harding. Harding focuses on the wordssermons, speeches, books, audiotapes, and television broadcastsof individual preachers, particularly falwell, as they rewrote their biblebased tradition to include. Hardings provocative title promises in no uncertain terms to tell a good story. Fundamentalist language and politics article in american anthropologist 1033. If all the fundamentalists knew who to vote for and did it together, jerry falwell proclaimed in 1979, we could elect anybody. Susan harding s book about jerry falwell focuses on how his charisma is consiruc led and deployed when creating a modernist politicized fundamentalism, a turning point in the religious rights accumulation of power in the united states. Susan harding s book of jerry falwell tells the fabulous tale of falwell s empire building and the rise of the moral majority in the 1980s through a densely textured ethnographic reading of people, institutions, media, and events. The discovery of jesse jacksons adultery provided the most recent example. Summary susan harding, a cultural anthropologist, set out in the 1980s to understand the significance of christian fundamentalism to date.

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