reading _battle for god_ by karen armstrong.

posted request for references at creationism-groups the results:


The Fundamentalist Phenomenon" edited by Norman J. Cohen
Campbell's "Myths to Live By"
"The Creationist Movement in Modern America"


"The Creationists: The Evolution of Creationism" by Ron Numbers
darwinism comes to america


The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism (1993)
by Ronald L. Numbers
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520083938

Darwinism Comes to America (1998)
by Ronald L. Numbers
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674193121

God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter Between
Christianity and Science (1986)
edited by David C. Lindberg & Ronald L. Numbers
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520056922

Creationist Movement in Modern America (1990)
by Raymond A. Eve & Francis B. Harrold
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805797416

Cult Archaeology & Creationism: Understanding Pseudoscientific
Beliefs About the Past (1995)
edited by Francis B. Harrold & Raymond A. Eve
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0877455139

Fundamentalism and American Culture (1982)
by George M. Marsden
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195030834

Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism (1991)
by George M. Marsden
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802805396

Where Darwin Meets the Bible: Creationists and Evolutionists in
America (2002)
by Larry A. Witham
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195150457

Though this book is focused on education politics issues, it also
deals with sociological aspects of the creationist movement:

The Creation Controversy: Science or Scripture in Schools (2nd Ed.,
2000)
by Dorothy Nelkin
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595001947

There's also this important, but dated, book on this general subject
that was published in the mid-1960s:

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
by Richard Hofstadter
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0394703170