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This summer, we're taking you back to class with 12 more weeks of curated summer school sessions.

And this week, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Professor Molly Worthen,

teaches a class about the history and intellectual underpinnings of Protestant fundamentalism in 20th century America.

She begins with the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial and later delves into the origins and growth of Pentecostalism.

Stay tuned, class starts right after this.

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All right, let's begin.

My name is Molly Worthen.

We're at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and today's lecture is on the history of American fundamentalism and Pentecostalism. I'm going to try to

answer three big questions today. Number one, what is Protestant fundamentalism? What does the

term mean? Second, how did fundamentalism? What does the term mean? Second, how did fundamentalists relate to

mainstream culture? And third, why has fundamentalism been so much more influential in the United States

than in any other society in the Western world?

I'm curious, is fundamentalism, fundamentalist, are these terms that you hear today?

Do you know people who call themselves a fundamentalist or use this label?

I see some nodding. Any examples?

Yes.

Is he a lot like current Islam they're trying to describe alternate groups that can do terrorist

attacks?

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