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By Margaret Lamberts Bendroth

Fundamentalists within the City is a narrative of non secular controversy and department, set inside of flip of the century and early twentieth-century Boston. It bargains a brand new viewpoint at the upward thrust of fundamentalism, emphasizing the function of neighborhood occasions, either sacred and secular, in deepening the divide among liberal and conservative Protestants. the 1st a part of the narrative, starting with the arrest of 3 monks for preaching at the Boston universal in 1885, exhibits the significance of anti-Catholicism as a catalyst for swap. the second one a part of the publication bargains with separation, informed in the course of the occasions of 3 city-wide revivals, each one demonstrating a level of conservative Protestant detachment from their city origins.

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