Word: fundamentalistism
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...fashioned hymns, sung with tearful intensity by the church choir, were pure "soul"; a succession of black-robed speakers praised the memory of Dr. King in fustian oratory rich with Biblical imagery. In effect, it was a crystalline demonstration of the fact that Negro churches, by and large, are fundamentalist in outlook and still bear the marks of their origin as the spiritual hope of a people who once were slaves...
...account for the context in which it was said. The quote in question was originally directed to me in a conversation on the night of March 8 at the Psychedelic Supermarket, a conversation which Mr. Jamison apparently misconstrued. I had asked Country Joe what his reaction was to a fundamentalist minister's charge that rock music was an attempt to destroy the sanctity of marriage. He facetiously agreed with the minister and said that rock had turned him into a faggot. The fact is that Country Joe is married and that his wife is expecting a child. Ken Emerson
Bradesku testified that his wife's affection for him began to wane two years ago. That was when she started listening to broadcasts of the Radio Church of God, a fundamentalist sect that claims 40,000 members and prepares a weeknightly program that is heard on 210 U.S. radio stations. The message got through to Mrs. Bradesku, and she became something of a student of the church's beliefs, according to her oldest son, who testified for his father. What particularly bothered her was a growing feeling that, since her husband had been divorced once, her marriage...
...urban Southern Baptist and Methodist congregations there is a growing spiritual sophistication about interpreting the Bible. But in country villages, among the fervent fundamentalist churchlets, the literal truth of God's word is an unalterable axiom. "Even the mention of Christ walking on water or Jonah being swallowed by a whale can quickly develop into an insoluble controversy if it is suggested that such miracles are symbolic," writes Caldwell. In one such back-country church recently, he says, the congregation became concerned when the minister neglected to specifically reaffirm from the pulpit that Christ was born of a virgin...
...coverage of the 1925 Scopes "monkey" trial, H. L. Mencken mercilessly shredded the arguments of Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan, who served as a special prosecutor against the teacher of Darwin's theory. Wrote Mencken: "The mountebank Bryan, parading the streets in his seersucker coat, is pointed out to sucklings as the greatest man since Abraham." Was such reporting an attempt to influence the outcome of the trial...