Project Questions

1. Based on your reading of these documents, what are the major issues that separated fundamentalists from modernists?
2. What do these sources suggest about the ways in which fundamentalists and modernists applied their religious beliefs to contemporary social, cultural, and political issues?
3. How and why did both fundamentalists and modernists make use of history? Which of the authors included here uses history most effectively?
4. Central Question: How did the rise of Christian fundamentalism in the wake of World War I transform religious belief and activism in the United States?