Fundamentalism and Education in the Scopes Era God, Darwin, and the

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God, Darwin, and the Roots of America’s Culture Wars

Adam Laats

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Fundamentalism and Education in the Scopes Era

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Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

1

Part I: Fundamentalism and Fundamentalists 1

A New Kind of Protestant

11

2

What’s in a Name?

23

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Part II: God and School 3

Campus Skirmishes

43

4

Early Legislative Battles

61

5

Of Monkeys and Men

77

Part III: Monkeys and Modernism 6

School Legislation after Scopes

99

7

College Controversies after Scopes

121

8

Fundamentalists, Bibles, and Schooling in the 1920s

139

Part IV: Fundamentalism Transformed 9

Fundamentalists and the New Fundamentalism

159

10 Fundamentalists Outside the New Fundamentalism

175

Conclusion

189

Epilogue: Into the Future

193

Notes

201

Index

247

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