christian fundamentalism

"The predicted Rapture was faked by Pastor Frick's Church of America and 3,000 Believers are now missing or dead. Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple and her best friend Harpreet are revolutionaries, determined to expose the Church's diabolical power grab...and to locate Viv's missing heartthrob Peter Ivey"--Provided by publisher.

"Libby is the oldest child of six, going on seven, in a family that adheres to the 'quiverfull' lifestyle: strict evangelical Christians who believe that they should have as many children as God allows because children are like arrows in the quiver of 'God's righteous warriors.' Meanwhile, her new neighbor, Zo is a gender fluid teen whose feminist, socialist, vegetarian family recently relocated from the city in search of a less stressful life. Zo and her family are as far to the left ideologically as Libby's family is to the right, and yet Libby and Zo, who are the same age, feel a connection that leads them to friendship--a friendship that seems doomed from the start because of their families' differences"--Provided by publisher.

Presents the argument that the "Christian Right" of the United States of America, such as the likes of Pat Robertson and the Trinity Broadcast Network, has become fascist in its desire to make America into a Christian nation. Also argues that the Christian Right is not, in fact, Christian, and is driven more by political power than by anything in the Bible.

Examines the history of Christian fundamentalism and opposition to evolution and Bible criticism; describes the development of evolution as a scientific tenet; discusses Biblical interpretation; and presents case studies of evolution's benefits to humans.

In 1962 in South Carolina, twelve-year-old Esta is called into the ministry of Jesus and anointed with the gift of healing, but when her relatives decide to take her on a religious crusade she wonders if it is the right thing to do.

Contains nearly two hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about significant people, events, beliefs and institutions, and major movements, denominations, sects, and churches in the history of fundamentalism, focusing on Protestant fundamentalism in the United States.

Esther Leah Ridley, a twelve-year-old girl in South Carolina in 1962, discovers she has the gift of healing and is sent out on a crusade along with her boy-crazy sister, and her favorite uncle Peter Earl, whose intense interest in the collection plate soon has Esther worrying about whether she is really answering God's call.