USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

1920S AMERICAN CULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Describe the difference between fundamentalism/traditionalism and modernism.
A
Traditionalism focuses on following the paths of history, good or bad, and modernism is all about change.
B
Traditionalism or fundamentalism keeps things simple and modernism focuses on the power of technology
C
Traditionalism is “old-school”, religious-based thinking and modernism is “new-school”, science-based thinking
D
Fundamentalism is a cultural trend that focuses on changing and modernism stays true to the continuing traditions.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Fundamentalism emphasizes authority and fixed creeds in religion; modernism emphasizes freedom and progress in religious thought.

Detailed explanation-2: -Traditionalists were people who had deep respect for long-held cultural and religious values. For them, these values were anchors that provided order and stability to society. Modernists were people who embraced new ideas, styles, and social trends.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most importantly, though, the difference between traditional religion and the later-developing fundamentalism lay in the direct perception of the divine on the part of traditionalists. Strict reliance on Biblical scripture was only one aspect of religious belief-direct perception could be obtained apart from this.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer. Fundamentalism, in the narrowest meaning of the term, was a movement that began in the late 19th-and early 20th-century within American Protestant circles to defend the “fundamentals of belief” against the corrosive effects of liberalism that had grown within the ranks of Protestantism itself.

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