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Christina Copland

Christina Copland

Christina Copland is a history Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California. Her dissertation, titled “Faith, Finances and the Remaking of Southern Californian Fundamentalism, 1910 – 1950,” ties together Protestant fundamentalism, the urban history of Los Angeles, and the relationship between capitalism and religion. 

Christina Copland
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Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, ca.1980
In 1980, the new glass-and-steel cathedral made a bold statement about Orange County's thriving evangelical community. By 2010, Crystal Cathedral Ministries had filed for bankruptcy.
The Bible Institute of Los Angeles and the Church of the Open Door
An oil tycoon invested his fortune in Christian fundamentalism, making Los Angeles a world center of the movement.
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