This text depicts the long-running battle within the fundamentalist movement over the roles of men and women both within the church and outside it. Drawing on interviews and written sources, the author surveys the interplay between fundamentalist theology and fundamentalist practice.

This fascinating book depicts the long-running battle within the fundamentalist movement over the roles of men and women both within the church and outside it. Drawing on interviews as well as on written sources, Margaret Lamberts Bendroth surveys the complicated interplay between fundamentalist theology, which is dominated by the search for order and hierarchical gender roles that have women subservient to men, and fundamentalist practice, which often depends on women in important ways to further the movement's institutional growth. Bendroth begins by describing the earliest days of the fundamentalist movement, when there was a general acceptance of women in ministry roles as teachers, missionaries, and even occasional preachers. She then traces fundamentalism's growing identification with masculine concerns after World War I and its battle with the forces of modernity (such as the rebellious flappers of the twenties). Bendroth explains that in the years before World War II women were able once again to make substantial contributions to the movement, but that during the cultural turn toward domesticity in the 1950s, fundamentalist leaders urged women to retreat to their "ordained" roles as submissive helpmates and encouraged men to fill the teaching and organizational positions the women vacated. Bendroth brings this conflict up to the present, examining the fundamentalist and evangelical rejection of contemporary feminism and investigating how our cultural norms of equality affect these movements' teaching on gender roles. - Publisher.

In this fascinating book, the author surveys the complicated interplay between fundamentalist theology, which is dominated by the search for order and hierarchical gender roles that have women subservient to men, and fundamentalist practice, which often depends on women in important ways to further the movement's institutional growth. Illustrations.

Résumé : Objectif et Méthode: A partir des résultats anatomopathologiques de 43 patients ayant bénéficié d'un traitement chirurgical dans le cadre d'une épilepsie pharmacorésistante, nous avons réalisé une relecture des IRM préopératoires afin d'identifier les critères radiologiques classiques ou atypiques des différentes lésions et d'évaluer leur influence sur l'interprétation. Nous avons également analysé la pertinence des différents protocoles IRM réalisés et l'évolution clinique des patients opérés. Résultats : Nous avons observé des aspects classiques de sclérose hippocampique, de dysplasie corticale, de DNET et de lésion gliale. Cinq cas ont été considérés comme atypiques. Il s'agissait d'un épaississement hippocampique dans le cadre d'une sclérose hippocampique, d'une association entre un gangliogliome et une dysplasie corticale, d'un gangliogliome dont les portions kystiques et charnues se situaient à distance l'une de l'autre, d'une DNET sans hyposignal T1 marqué et sans épaississement cortical et d'une lésion gliale présentant 2 foyers tumoraux séparés par une substance blanche normale, l'un de ces foyers évoquant en imagerie un gangliogliome. Les conclusions de la relecture des IRM étaient exactes dans 72% des cas, erronées dans 19% des cas et le diagnostic avait été évoqué dans 9% des cas. L'interprétation a permis de mettre en évidence une méconnaissance de certains aspects classiques de lésions épileptogènes comme les gangliogliomes ne présentant pas de portion kystique et les hamartomes. L'interprétation peut également être mise en échec par la non visibilité de certaines lésions telles que les microdysgénésies corticales et par les modifications des aspects lésionnels en période post-ictale. Notre étude a également permis de comprendre la signification de certaines anomalies IRM grâce aux résultats anatomopathologiques. Ainsi, la raréfaction de la substance blanche du pôle temporal observée dans la sclérose hippocampique ne semble pas en rapport avec une dysplasie mais traduirait une perturbation de la myélinisation secondaire aux crises. Un épaississement de l'hippocampe peut être retrouvé en rapport avec des modifications post-ictales par un mécanisme de gliose hypertrophique. Il existe des formes dites " non spécifiques " de DNET présentant des aspects histologiques et IRM proches des lésions gliales. La qualité des protocoles réalisés, jugés adaptés et complets dans 58% des cas, adaptés mais incomplets dans 42% des cas (aucun protocole inadapté), n'a pas perturbé l'interprétation. La chirurgie de l'épilepsie permet un contrôle des crises chez plus de 70% des patients. La localisation extratemporale de la lésion ou l'existence d'une dysplasie corticale sont des facteurs de moins bons pronostics post-opératoires. Conclusions : Bien qu'il existe une bonne corrélation entre l'interprétation et les résultats anatomopathologiques, deux éléments sont à remarquer : la méconnaissance des pathologies rares et des formes sémiologiques moins typiques de certaines lésions épileptogènes et l'existence de lésions non visibles en imagerie. L'incorporation à notre plateau technique d'une IRM 3 Tesla pourrait permettre d'améliorer nos résultats en termes de détection des anomalies.

Many American's today are taking note of the surprisingly strong political force that is the religious right. Controversial decisions by the government are met with hundreds of lobbyists, millions of dollars of advertising spending, and a powerful grassroots response. How has the fundamentalist movement managed to resist the pressures of the scientific community and the draw of modern popular culture to hold on to their ultra-conservative Christian views? Understanding the movement's history is key to answering this question. Fundamentalism and American Culture has long been considered a classic in religious history, and to this day remains unsurpassed. Now available in a new edition, this highly regarded analysis takes us through the full history of the origin and direction of one of America's most influential religious movements. For Marsden, fundamentalists are not just religious conservatives; they are conservatives who are willing to take a stand and to fight. In Marsden's words (borrowed by Jerry Falwell), "a fundamentalist is an evangelical who is angry about something." In the late nineteenth century American Protestantism was gradually dividing between liberals who were accepting new scientific and higher critical views that contradicted the Bible and defenders of the more traditional evangelicalism. By the 1920s a full-fledged "fundamentalist" movement had developed in protest against theological changes in the churches and changing mores in the culture. Building on networks of evangelists, Bible conferences, Bible institutes, and missions agencies, fundamentalists coalesced into a major protest movement that proved to have remarkable staying power. For this new edition, a major new chapter compares fundamentalism since the 1970s to the fundamentalism of the 1920s, looking particularly at the extraordinary growth in political emphasis and power of the more recent movement. Never has it been more important to understand the history of fundamentalism in our rapidly polarizing nation. Marsen's carefully researched and engrossing work remains the best way to do just that.

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This authoritative volume offers the fullest account to date of Christian fundamentalism, its origins in the nineteenth century, and its development up to the present day. It looks at the movement in global terms and through a number of key subjects and debates in which it is actively engaged.