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Hello and welcome to Straight White American Jesus.

My name is Dan Miller.

I'm associate professor of religion and social thought at landmark college.

And I am actually recording today from the studios of WLMC landmark college radio.

And as always, I am joined by my co-host.

I am Bradley Onishi, associate professor of religious studies at Goodmore College.

And I'm actually out here in California today.

So coming from a long way away.

Yeah, so I'm in Rainy Vermont and Brad is in sunny California.

And I'll try to to mask my resentment about that during the episode.

So just reminding everybody where we were, we're still early in our second round of episodes, our second season here.

And we spent some time in our first episode this season talking about how to understand evangelicalism, American evangelicalism, we really need to understand it as a kind of culture.

Less about a belief system, more about a culture with customs and identity and the construction of identity.

And what we want to talk about today is a specific facet of that cultural aspect of evangelicalism and specifically that it's a kind of culture that we can refer to as a fundamentalism.

And so Brad, I want to throw it over to you. Tell us what that means.

What does it mean to say evangelicalism is a kind of fundamentalism?

Yeah, you know, one thing we talked about last week is that, you know, we wanted to get into evangelicalism as a culture, right?

So we pointed out the fact that all of us participated in cultures.

And by participating in a cultural or cultural community or cultural milieu, we often do things without sort of reflecting on the beliefs of that community, right?

We often participate in the rituals or the practices or the events without really sort of thinking about, you know, what what the beliefs are about.

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