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