What does a term mean . Second how did fundamentalists relay to mainstream culture . And third, why has fundamentalism been so much more influential in the united states, then in any other society in the western world . Im curious, is fundamentalism, fundamentalists, are these storms that you hear today, do you know people who call themselves a fundamentalist, or use this label . I see some nodding. And examples . Yes . So i have a question islam who are trying to describe alternate groups. So its a term that you hear more often in the context of islam. What about here, among american increased groups . Do you hear the label . Im from up north, and many people are called fundamentally fundamentalists christians, i dont think its often, in my experience, not often used by the fundamentalist themselves. So youve heard it more as a pejorative term . Thats interesting. That lines up with my own experience. I think, today, there are exceptions, i certainly met some proud independent baptize
Second, how did fundamentalists relate to mainstream culture . And third, why has fundamentalism been so much more influential in the United States than in any other society in the western world. Im curious fundamentalism, fundamentalists, are these terms that you hear today . Do you know people who call themselves fundamentalists and use this label . I see some nodding. Any examples . Yes. Trying to describe alternate groups that can do terrorist attacks. Its a term that you hear more often in islam. What about here with American Christian groups . From up north, many people we would call fundamentalist christians. I dont think its often at least in my experience, its not often used by the fundamentalists themselves. Youve heard it more of a pejorative term. Thats interesting. That lines up with my own experience. There are exceptions. I have certainly met some proud independent baptists who claim that term fundamentalist, but generally it seemed to be used as an insult. Its not a lab
Creationism in Public Schools and gained national attention. Later, she talks about the origins and growth of pentecostalism which strives for the divine and faith healing and speaking in tongues. All right. Lets begin. My name is molly worthen, were at the university of North Carolina at chapel hill and its american fundamentalism and pentecostalism and ill try to answer three Big Questions today. Number one, what is protestant fundamentalism . What does the term mean . Second, how did fundamentalists relate to main street culture . And third, why has fundamentalism been so much more influential in the United States than in any other society in the western world . Im curious, is fundamentalism, fundamentalist, are these terms that you hear today . Do you know people who call themselves fundamentalist or use this label . I see some nodding. Any examples . Yes. Trying to describe alternate groups. It is a term that you hear more often in the context of islam. What about here among Ameri
And political impulses caused americans to consider americans a larger role in the world for their nation. Professor smith details the actions they took such as pursuing missionary work, arguing for the expansion of the navy and searching for new economic markets. This is just over an hour and 10 minutes. What were going to do today is start something very new and very distinct in the evolution of the story were telling. The 1890s becomes a distinct beginning of the way america thinks of itself in the world. In a very different way. If you want to understand the 20th century, if you want to understand the role that the United States assumes for itself and plays in the 20th century, the 1890s is the place to start. Because the transformation, listen, the transformation that you see among the people and their attitudes in the 1890s is little short of kind of amazing. Remember this. Remember that as far as you want to go in American History, okay, the idea has been that the United States
Of the story we are telling. The 1890s becomes a distinct beginning of the way american thinks of itself in the world in a very different way. If you want to understand the 20th century. If you want to understand the role that the United States assumes and plays in the country, the 1890s is the place to start, because the transformation that you see among the people and their attitudes in the 1890s is little short of kind of amazing. Remember this. Remember that as far back as you want to go in American History, the idea has been that the United States, and before that the american colonies. We are over here and the rest of the world is the rest of the world. There is this purposeful sense that we are us, and the rest of the world can do whatever it wants, whatever it takes, whatever it is going to do, it will not affect us. I am sort of dancing around the words isolation, because that has got a lot of baggage around it. But that is part of it. That we were and isolated country. Or if