ABSTRACT
If the battle between heavenly and satanic influences were only on the personal plane, concerning such things as individual sin and disease, it might be difficult to make a specific cultural connection between Christian fundamentalism in the United States and the mixture of conservative evangelicalism and Pentecostalism that succeeds abroad. But the Manichean delineations between the fortress of the Good and the threat of Evil, so sharply drawn in U.S. fundamentalist tradition, are clearly reflected and reproduced in various social, political, and religious confrontations throughout the world. This is what gives this worldwide faith the characteristics of a fundamentalist movement: Christians have enjoined the battle with enemy forces all over the globe in an attempt to assert their authority, and to a certain degree, the hegemony of an expanding U.S. culture.
