... different categories that fundamentalism can be broken into. Jeffery K. Hadden has identified four types of fundamentalism. First, there is theological fundamentalism. This is the movement concerned with defending traditional Christian doctrine against modern thinking. Secondly, there is political fundamentalism. This is a combination of theological fundamentalism and the idea that religious leaders have to combat against worldly vices. Political ... modernism. It started off very steady and progressive. It became evident that it would soon begin to affect ideas and beliefs within the Pr...

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... repression.# With a large following, Fundamentalists easily passed laws to curb the rise of Modernism. One of the most influential laws of the era became the law against teaching evolution in schools. At the climax of the battle between Modernism and Fundamentalism was the Scopes Trial. Within the Modernist generation was a class of scientists in which secularism was building. One teacher, John ... a Modernist society in which science could blossom. The Prosecution's primary purpose was simply to convict Scopes of breaking the law; however, it's greater purpose was to defend the doctrin...

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... . During the scopes trial, a debate between fundamentalists in the rural south and the modernists of the northern cities, Fundamentalists were discredited by modernists, but the question of religion and public schools remained controversial and unresolved, even though Scopes was convicted. Prohibition was another controversy that helped to define the 1920s. This was a controversy that helped to provide definition to the 1920s ... election to state and local offices in Indiana and Texas. At first, the majority of native-born white Americans tolerated the Klan because it vowed to uphold hi...

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