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Religion Wars in the 1920s-U.S.
First Edition| ©2018 Matthew Avery Sutton
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 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.
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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.
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Matthew Avery Sutton
Table of Contents
Central QuestionLearning 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
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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.

Religion Wars in the 1920s-U.S.
First Edition| 2018
Matthew Avery Sutton
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