RT Article
T1 Aimee Semple McPherson's Pentecostalism, Darwinism, Eugenics, the Disenfranchised, and the Scopes Monkey Trial
JF Pneuma
VO 41
IS 2
SP 255
OP 278
A1 English de Alminana, Margaret
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/168393332X
AB This article posits that the cultural battle waged by Aimee Semple McPherson in concert with William Jennings Bryan over evolution and modernism was largely focused on a popular social theory linked to eugenics. On July 21, 1925, in the city of Dayton, Tennessee, a twentieth-century watershed event became a harbinger of the age: The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, popularly known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. The public remembers the event as spotlighting the fundamentalist-modernist controversy with respect to the teaching of evolution in the public-school curriculum against the protests of fundamentalist Christians who advocated Creationism. The historical event was far more complicated than the popular recollection. By revisiting primary materials, this investigation will demonstrate that much of the protest voiced by McPherson and Bryan involved Social Darwinism and eugenics and a concern over the impact of these popular theories upon the Social Gospel.
K1 Aimee Semple McPherson
K1 Darwinism
K1 Scopes Monkey Trial
K1 Social Darwinism
K1 William Jennings Bryan
K1 disenfranchised
K1 Eugenics
K1 Modernism
K1 modernist controversy
K1 the poor
DO 10.1163/15700747-04101029