lecture 4: old religion, new religion
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Old Religion, New Religion
Spiritualism
Church Attendance
Immigrant Religions
Immigrant Religions
Protestants (esp. Lutheran)
Catholics
Orthodox
Freethinkers
Judaism
Hinduism
Buddhism
Islam
Catholicism
1873
1943
The Catholic
“Conspiracy”
Schooling
Why is there a separate Catholic school system?
Cincinnati Bible War of 1869
The Blaine Amendment, 1876
No State shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; and no money raised by taxation in any State, for the support of public schools, or derived from any public fund therefor, nor any public lands devoted thereto, shall ever be under the control of any religious sect, nor shall any money so raised, or lands so devoted be divided between religious sects or denominations.
Judaism Pogroms
Zionism
Anti-Semitism
Parliament of World Religions, Chicago, 1893
Missionary Activity
American Christianity
A Patchwork Quilt
Modernism v. Fundamentalism
Social Gospel v. Premillenialism
Traditional sects v. New sects
Reform movements
Diversity
Evangelical Revivalism
How Should Change Be Handled?
Modernism Liberal Theology
Higher criticism
Jesus as example
Truth in each religion
The Fundamentals, 1910-1915
The inspiration and inerrancy of scripture
The Virgin birth of Jesus
Christ's death as the atonement for sin
Bodily resurrection of Jesus
Historical reality of the miracles of Jesus
How should poverty and crime be handled?
The Social Gospel
Premillennial Dispensationalism
Reform Movements
The Salvation Army
The YMCA “Muscular” Christianity
Mind, Body, Spirit
Urbanization
Temperance
New Movements
Christian Restoration
Churches of Christ
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Pentecostalism
Christian Science
Mormonism
Women in Christianity
Frances Willard, Women Christian Temperance Union
Ellen G. White, Seventh Day Adventism
Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science
Exercises
Charles Sheldon, In His Steps
The Fundamentals
Think like a historian!
Concluding Thoughts