George M. Marsden is Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emeritus of History at The University of Notre Dame and a Distinguished Scholar in the History of Christianity at Calvin Theological Seminary. He has published major works on a variety of topics concerning American religion and culture, and his awards include The Bancroft Prize in History and the Grawemeyer Award in Religion. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Preface to the Third Edition
Introduction
Part One
Before Fundamentalism
I. Evangelical America at the Brink of Crisis
II. The Paths Diverge
III. D. L. Moody and a New American Evangelism
Part Two
The Shaping of a Coalition
This Age and the Millennium

IV. Prologue: The Paradox of Revivalist Fundamentalism
V. Two Revisions of Millennialism
VI. Dispensationalism and the Baconian Ideal
VII. History, Society, and the Church
Holiness

VIII. The Victorious Life
IX. The Social Dimensions of Holiness
X. "The Great Reversal,"
XI. Holiness and Fundamentalism

The Defense of the Faith

XII. Tremors of Controversy
XIII. Presbyterians and the Truth
XIV. The Fundamentals

Christianity and Culture

XV. Four Views Circa 1910
1. This Age Condemned: The Premillennial Extreme
2. The Central Tension
3. William Jennings Bryan: Christian Civilization Preserved
4. Transforming Culture by the Word
Part Three
The Crucial Years: 1917-1925

XVI. World War I, Premillennialism, and American Fundamentalism: 1917-1918
XVII. Fundamentalism and the Cultural Crisis: 1919-1920
XVIII. The Fundamentalist Offensive on Two Fronts: 1920-1921
XIX. Would the Liberals Be Driven from the Denominations? 1922-1923
XX. The Offensive Stalled and Breaking Apart: 1924-1925
XXI. Epilogue: Dislocation, Relocation, and Resurgence: 1925-1940
Part Four
Interpretations
XXII. Fundamentalism as a Social Phenomenon
XXIII. Fundamentalism as a Political Phenomenon
XXIV. Fundamentalism as an Intellectual Phenomenon
XXV. Fundamentalism as an American Phenomenon

Part Five
Fundamentalism Yesterday and Today (2005)
Part Six
What Happened to Fundamentalism in the Twenty-First Century
Afterword: History and Fundamentalism
Notes
Bibliographical Indexes
Index