ABSTRACT
The Fundamentalist movement that historians and theologians have felt so secure in categorizing in past decades has proven recently to be more complicated than at first anticipated. Historical investigation into the pre-1920s has yielded an early Fundamentalist movement which contained the same beliefs and practices as the post-1920 era. No longer can Fundamentalism be defined as a rural, southern redneck phenomenon that is best illustrated by the Scopes Trial, since the Fundamentalist movement as a whole transcends the controversy of the 1920s. 1
