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Essay on The Scopes Trial
The 1920 was a time of conflict and change in most areas of American society. Fundamentalism was even apart from its popular misuse as a synonym for bigotry, fanaticism or anti-intellectualism, is an elusive term. The problem is that fundamentalist, has become a word of wide usage and immense symbolic power. It has been spoken with derisive loathing and, no doubt, some fear in liberal intellectual circles, for fundamentalist evokes images--such as the Scopes of trial in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925 or, more recently, the widespread demonstrations against abortion--that represent deep and long-standing cultural conflicts in modern America.
The term also connotes a broadly experienced human propensity to defend the "old ways" in religion and society. Millions of modern people see religious traditionalism as the best indeed the only way to satisfy their yearning for a "still point" in our rapid-paced world. As a result, the term fundamentalism now is often used to describe a more universal religious and cultural phenomenon than the American Christian religious movement that arose in the early twentieth century. Fundamentalism has become a generic label for militant religious and cultural conservatism worldwide. It has been used to identify Mormons, Roman Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and Hindus who share some basic traits with the party within American Protestantism that coined the term some seventy years ago.
There is some value in using fundamentalism generically. We have much to learn about these varied groups: what they have in common, what sets them off as distinctive, and what their responses to modern life reveal about the struggle to live humanely in today's world. Nevertheless, historians of American religion should reserve the right to define fundamentalism narrowly, for in their field of study the more generic usage obscures more than it illumines. If it is used as a common label for reactionary cultural nativism....
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