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The fundamentalist–modernist controversy is a major schism that originated in the 1920s and 1930s within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. At issue were foundational disputes about the role of Christianity ; the authority of the Bible ; and the death , resurrection , and atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ . [ 1 ]
The bulk of the human religious experience pre-dates written history, which is roughly 7,000 years old. [1] A lack of written records results in most of the knowledge of pre-historic religion being derived from archaeological records and other indirect sources, and from suppositions. Much pre-historic religion is subject to continued debate.
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The number of people with other religions was almost nonexistent in 1948, but rose to 5% by 2011, partially due to large immigration from non-Christian countries. The percentage of non-religious people (atheists, agnostics, and irreligious people) in the US has dramatically increased from 2% to 13%. The number of Americans unsure about their ...
A Social History of French Catholicism 1789–1914 (London, 1989) González Justo L. and Ondina E. González, Christianity in Latin America: A History (2008) Hastings, Adrian. A History of English Christianity 1920–2000 (2001) Hope, Nicholas. German and Scandinavian Protestantism 1700–1918 (1999) Lannon, Frances.
1920s: The Spanish Flu. In the fall of 1918, a mutated version of the virus that claimed its first victims in the spring made its way around the world, causing the death rate to escalate quickly ...
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The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America. Malden, Ma; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-6936-3. (43 essays by scholars) Hall, D. D. (2019). The Puritans: A transatlantic history. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Koester, Nancy (2007). Fortress Introduction to the History of Christianity in the United States. Minneapolis ...