Klandamentalism: Bob Jones at the Intersection of Revivalism, Politics, and White Supremacy, by Camille Kaminski Lewis. Clemson University Press, 2025. Rhetorics of Conflict. 352 pages. $128.00. ISBN 978-1638041566

Abstract

A historian by training, Anderson Rouse reviews Camille Kaminski Lewis’s Klandamentalism: Bob Jones at the Intersection of Revivalism, Politics, and White Supremacy, a study of twentieth century religion and race that examines the fusion of Protestant fundamentalism and Ku Klux Klan activity and ideology. Klandementalism focuses on the work of Bob Jones through archives beyond that of the university that bears his name, illustrating how Bob Jones University became an example of the institutionalization of racialized Protestant politics.