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This is a 4 page paper that provides an overview of religious fundamentalism. Balmer's "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory" is used as a base text. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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televangelists, in favor of covering small-scale community-driven fundamentalist operations in many diverse areas across the country, highlighting their differences as well as the many ideological and spiritual similarities that hold
them together. In treating the topic this way, Balmer is able to highlight more accurately what the draw of fundamentalism is for so many Americans, as well as what larger
social issues are inextricably tied into the future evolution of the movement. The diversity of the fundamentalist communities that Balmer covers is quite extensive. To begin with, he visits a
California church that has been in existence since the 1970s, and attributes the growth of the church to the accessible and casual style of the pastor, Chuck Smith, who Balmer
even cites as "lacking charisma" (Balmer, 2006). In spite of this, the church has grown to megachurch proportions, solely on the strength of its message of literal interpretation of scripture.
In other respects, it is also the antithesis of the sensational megachurch; for instance, Balmer notes Smiths disdain for the emotionalism of popular fundamentalism, believing that a faith based on
emotion is short-lived, and preferring a more stable, long-lived, and reasoned approach to faith (Balmer, 2006). It is with that observation that Balmer first begins to discover a similar
thread running through the entirety of the fundamentalist communities he explores. When travelling to Mississippi, Balmer writes of John Perkins, a young man who faced a great deal of racial
discrimination in Mississippi during his youth, only to move away to California, find religion, and then feel compelled to return to his home state in order to minister to the
Black population there. When building a church in the local community, Perkins preferred to emphasize practical results, focusing on improving the material lifestyle of residents as well as their spiritual
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