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Religion Wars in the 1920s-U.S.

First Edition  ©2018 Matthew Avery Sutton Formats: E-book

Authors

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    Matthew Avery Sutton

    Matthew Avery Sutton (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) is associate professor of history at Washington State University. He is the author of Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America, which later served as the basis for the PBS American Experience documentary on this subject. His articles have appeared in several historical journals including the Journal of American History as well as the New York Times and he has received research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation.

Table of Contents

Central Question
Learning Objective
Historical Background 
Primary Sources    
Harry Emerson Fosdick, “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” (sermon), 1922
J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism, 1923   
James M. Gray, Modernism: A Foe to Good Government, 1924  
Billy Sunday, Americanism, 1922 
“Christian Civilization” (cartoon), 1922   
“The Church Caucasian,” 1924      
Project Questions
Additional Assignments
Additional Resources for Research

Product Updates

By reading the most important and lively original sources related to the intellectual battles between Christian fundamentalists and religious liberals in the 1920s, including sermons, tracts, and cartoons, students will come to understand that far more was at stake than simply theology or doctrine. By analyzing the sources in this document collection, students will gain a deeper awareness of the diversity of the American experience, a more complete understanding of the present in a historically based context, and an enhanced ability to interpret, assess, and contextualize primary sources. Students are guided through their analysis of the primary sources with an author-provided learning objective, central question, and historical context.

ISBN:9781319171513

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