"The Book of Jerry Falwell" is a fascinating world of cultural analysis, a rare account that takes fundamentalist Christianity on its own terms and deepens the understanding of both religion and the modern world. Harding focuses on the sermons, speeches, books, audiotapes and television broadcasts of individual preachers, particularly Falwell, as they rewrote their Bible-based tradition to include, rather than exclude, intense worldly engagement.
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"The Book of Jerry Falwell" is a fascinating world of cultural analysis, a rare account that takes fundamentalist Christianity on its own terms and deepens the understanding of both religion and the modern world. Harding focuses on the sermons, speeches, books, audiotapes and television broadcasts of individual preachers, particularly Falwell, as they rewrote their Bible-based tradition to include, rather than exclude, intense worldly engagement.
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