Faiths in an American Century

1. Faiths in an American Century Anagarika Dharmapala Varieties of Religious Expression, 1900-1920

2. Catholicism • U. S. no longer a mission field in 1908. • Catholic Foreign Mission Society—1911—Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers • Maryknoll Sisters—1920 • Maryknoll Laymissioners

3. Pentecostalism • Agnes M. Ozman (1901) • Glossolalia • Charles Fox Parham (1873-1929)—Bethel Bible College • Azusa Street Revival—William J. Seymour • Apostolic Faith

4. William Joseph Seymour, 1870-1922

6. Non-Western Faiths • World Parliament of Religions (1893) • Swami Vivekananda (Hinduism) • "Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful Earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now.“--Vivekanada • Anagarika Dharmapala (Southern Buddhism—Theravada) • Mohammad Alexander Russell Webb--Islam

7. World Parliament of Religions • English-speaking Christian representatives, who delivered 152 of 194 papers. • 12 speakers represented Buddhism • 11 Judaism • 8 Hinduism, • 2 Islam • 2 Parsis • 2 Shintoism • 2 Confucianism • 1 Taoism • 1 Jainism

8. World Parliament of Religions As the finite can never fully comprehend the infinite, nor perfectly express its own view of the divine, it necessarily follows that individual opinions of the divine nature and attributes will differ. But, properly understood, these varieties of view are not causes of discord and strife, but rather incentives to deeper interest and examination, Necessarily God reveals himself differently to a child than to a man; to a philosopher than to one who cannot read. Each must see God with the eyes of his own soul. Each must behold him through the colored glasses of his own nature. Each one must receive him according to his own capacity of reception. –Charles Carroll Bonney (1893)

9. World Parliament of Religions • The Parliament has shown that Christianity is still the great quickener of humanity, that it is now educating those who do not accept its doctrines, that there is no teacher to be compared with Christ, and no Saviour excepting Christ ... The non-Christian world may give us valuable criticism and confirm scriptural truths and make excellent suggestion as to Christian improvement, but it has nothing to add to the Christian creed” • --John Henry Barrows, 1893

10. World Parliament of Religions Needed is a “universal religion… which would hold no location in place or time, which would be infinite like God it would preach, whose sun shines upon the followers of Krishna or Christ; saints or sinner alike; which would not be the Brahman or Buddhist, Christian or Mohammedan, but the sum total of all these, and still have infinite space for development; which in its catholicity would embrace in its infinite arms and formulate a place for every human being, from the lowest groveling man who is scarcely removed in intellectuality from the brute, to the highest mind, towering almost above humanity, and who makes society stand in awe and doubt his human nature.”—Swami Vivekananda, 1893

11. World Parliament of Religions, 1893 Chicago

12. Mohammad Alexander Russell Webb, 1846-1916 Swami Vivekananda, 1863-1902)

13. Challenges from the Protestant Order • Taos Blue Lake annexation • Leo Frank case (1915)—AntiDefamation League of B’nai B’rith • Evangelicals • Carrie A. Nation