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She looked up, remarking, “This is what it feels like to run a superchurch.”

But you reassert fundamentalism as a “church movement” first and foremost, representing localism against “superchurch” ecumenism.

In the book, “superchurch” is one of the words that speaks to this paradox in fundamentalist rhetoric.

What did interest me was a narrative tension that kept popping up in my research between local churches and a constructed “enemy,” variously described in terms of ecumenical federation, superchurch confederacy, a world church, and secular humanism.

The superchurch, a mall-size, high-profile house of worship, is the natural counterpart of the super-supermarket and the multiplex cinema.