Malise Ruthven, Fundamentalism. The Search for Meaning, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004; см. также хорошо документированную работу Ричарда Вейнца: Richard E. Wentz, American Religious Traditions. The Shaping of Religion in the United States, Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 2003, а также Vincent Crapanzano, Literalism in America. From the Pulpit to the Bench, The New Press, New York, 2000.