Product Description: The Reverend Doctor J. Frank Norris was many things in the 1920's: a pastor who led the nation's first megachurch, a provocative publisher, and a pioneer broadcaster. With the flair of a great showman, he railed against vice and conspiracies he saw everywhere to a congregation of more than 10,000 at First Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas...read more

Product Description: Employing studies in population ecology as a framework for understanding the growth of religious movements, Disfellowshiped traces the growth of the Pentecostal movement. The author explores how the Pentecostal movement developed in relationship to Fundamentalism from its roots in the Holiness movement to the formation of the National Association of Evangelicals...read more

Product Description: By appropriating the very force it battles—popular culture—Christian fundamentalism now employs entertainment media to win converts to the armies of God.

A history of American fundamentalism, from its humiliation by the Scopes Trial to the rise of Billy Graham in the fifties, shows how it used youth movements, missionary work, and the rise of the mass media to spread its message. UP.