This book gives a personal insight into the hearts and minds of a fundamentalist Christian sect, the Open Brethren. Using Brethren magazine articles, obituaries, and testimonies, Peter Herriot argues that the Brethren constitute a perfect example of a fundamentalism. Their culture is entirely opposed to the beliefs, values, and norms of modernity. As a result, like other fundamentalisms they challenge modern Christianity and impede its efforts to engage with global society.

The first social scientific perspective on the Open Bretheren Studies the Open Brethren from several perspectives, including historical and psychological accounts Examines the challenge of fundamentalism to modernity and globalization

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Peter Herriot, who was brought up in a Brethren family, was Professor of Psychology at the City University and at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has since written on fundamentalism from a social psychological perspective. Among his books are 'Religious Fundamentalism: Global, Local, and Personal' (2009) and 'Warfare and Waves: Calvinists and Charismatics in the Church of England' (2017).

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Chapter 1. The Tight Brother's Tale.- Chapter 2. The Loose Brother's Tale.- Chapter 3. The Historian's Tale.- Chapter 4. The Psychologist's Tale.- Chapter 5. Brethren Lives.- Chapter 6. Salvation and Service.- Chapter 7. Conformity and Belief.- Chapter 8. Authority in Action.- Chapter 9. The Authority of the Bible.- Chapter 10: The Authority of the Brother.- Chapter 11. Separation and Identity.- Chapter 12. Pure from the World.- Chapter 13. Separated from the Sects.- Chapter 14. Apart from the Apostates.- Chapter 15. An Archetypal Fundamentalism.- Chapter 16. The Brethren and Modernism.- Chapter 17. Fundamentalism and Christianity.- Chapter 18. Religion and Globalisation.