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Article: The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics.
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- Church History
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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By Susan Friend Harding. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. xvi + 336 pp. $50.00 cloth. $18.95 paper.
The Book of Jerry Falwell, the distillation of two decades of work by one of this nation's more gifted anthropologist, is a brilliant exploration of an extremely important topic. It presents us with twelve closely-linked essays that examine Jerry Falwell, the men and women with whom he is closely associated, and the ministries and institutions that he has created. The essays generally examine matters connected with cultural politics; they focus especially on the way that rhetoric, oratory, and storytelling are deployed by Fundamentalists in ...