Christian Fundamentalism and the Culture of Disenchantment

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Thanks are due to the many people who answered questions or reviewed segments of this study and made helpful suggestions on how to improve them: Leigh Shaffer, Lawrence Davidson, Janet Amighi, Elsa Rapp, Geetha Ramanathan, Christian Moraru, Peter Yoonsuk Paik, Lou Caton, Randy Boyagoda, Brian Ingraffia, Michelle Effron Miller, John Hynes, Anne Dzamba, Karen Porter, Julienne Ford, Brian Baderman, Donna Usher, and Karen Fitts. I am indebted to Cathy Brettschneider, Humanities Editor at the University of Virginia Press, and Ellen Satrom, the Managing Editor , for their valuable assistance through the stages of the book’s production , and to Ruth Melville for her meticulous copyediting. I am grateful to Shirley, my wife, for all her moral support and patience during the time I worked on this project. Portions of chapters 1, 2, and 3 first appeared as an essay entitled “Postmodernism in a Fundamentalist Arena,” in the collection The Mourning After: Attending the Wake of Postmodernism, ed. Neil Brooks and Josh Toth (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007), 15–51. An earlier version of chapter 4 appeared under the title “Fundamentalist Dominion, Postmodern Ecology ,” in Ethics and the Environment 13.2 (Fall 2008): 119–41, published by Indiana University Press. A portion of chapter 5 first appeared under the title “Kinkade, Koons, Kitsch,” in the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 12.1 (Spring 2012): 53–81. I gratefully acknowledge the permission to reprint this work. Maltby, Christian Fundamentalism.indd xiii Maltby, Christian Fundamentalism.indd xiii 10/29/12 11:00 AM 10/29/12 11:00 AM ...