Word: fundamentalistism
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...sounds like the scenario for a low-budget sci-fi flick, but thousands of Californians now actually believe that these horrible events will soon happen. For months, astrologers, fundamentalist preachers, telepathists, clairvoyants and assorted mystics have been predicting the imminent demise of California by a giant earthquake; many of them are convinced that doomsday will occur some time this month...
...that Oklahoma's Oral Roberts has joined the Methodist ministry and de-emphasized the curative aspects of his high-decibel revivals, Allen is probably the best-known faith healer in the nation. Although ignored by mainstream Protestant churchmen, he has a large and enthusiastic following among fundamentalist Christians in the South and Southwest. Last year alone, A. A. Allen Revivals, Inc. grossed $2,692,342-not counting the salaries of Allen and his two associate preachers, who take their cut directly from "their ministry...
Since the committee includes, as the woman churchgoer noted, Russia's Archbishop Nikodim, the bearded Orthodox Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, fundamentalist Protestant leaders also descended on Tulsa for a headon, pulpit-pounding, old-time religious confrontation...
Even though Blake and his colleagues occasionally looked like beleaguered Daniels in a fundamentalist's lions' den, their choice of Tulsa was a deliberate one. "We saw it not as a way of taking on Hargis," said a council spokesman, Faith Pomponio, "but as a way of communication with his people." In fact, most of Tulsa's Protestant clergymen were cordial, and Republican Mayor James Hewgley was almost lyrical in his welcome: "The Lord sent them here." Even Hargis paid the council a backhanded compliment. "The cause of religious fundamentalism," he complained, has been "set back...
Many of these Southern blacks had a fundamentalist Christian background...