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The Religious Left in Modern America

Doorkeepers of a Radical Faith
Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements

von: Leilah Danielson, Marian Mollin, Doug Rossinow
42,79 €
Verlag:	Palgrave Macmillan
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	15.05.2018
ISBN/EAN:	9783319731209
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

This edited collection of exciting new scholarship provides comprehensive coverage of the broad sweep of twentieth century religious activism on the American left. The volume covers a diversity of perspectives, including Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish history, and important essays on African-American, Latino, and women’s spirituality. Taken together, these essays offer a comparative and long-term perspective on religious groups and social movements often studied in isolation, and fully integrate faith-based action into the history of progressive social movements and politics in the modern United States. It becomes clear that throughout the twentieth century, religious faith has served as a powerful motivator and generator for activism, not just as on the right, where observers regularly link religion and politics, but on the left. This volume will appeal to historians of modern American politics, religion, and social movements, religious studies scholars, and contemporary activists.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction; Leilah Danielson, Marian Mollin, and Doug Rossinow.- Chapter 2: The Other Social Gospelers: The Working-Class Religious Left, 1877–1920; Janine Giordano Drake.- Chapter 3: The Social Gospel, the YMCA, and the Emergence of the Religious Left after World War I; Christopher Evans.- Chapter 4: Judaism, Yiddish Peoplehood, and American Radicalism; David Verbeeten.- Chapter 5: Dorothy Day, Religion, and the Left; Nicholas Rademacher.- Chapter 6: “Saints for this Age”: Religion and Radicalism in the American Century; Leilah Danielson.- Chapter 7: Resisting Jim Crow Colonialism: Black Christianity and the International Origins of the Civil Rights Movement; Sarah Azaransky.- Chapter 8: To Create Such a Crisis and to Foster Such a Tension: African American Religious Conceptions of the State; Doug Thompson.- Chapter 9: The Catholic Interracial Council and Mexican American Civil Rights in Iowa, 1952–1974; Felipe Hinojosa.- Chapter 10: Black Power/Black Faith: Rethinking the “De-Christianization” of the Black Freedom Struggle; Angela D. Dillard.- Chapter 11: “Pray to God; She Will Hear Us”: Women Reimagining Religion and Politics in the 1970s; Lilian Calles Barger.- Chapter 12: “The 1900-Year Crisis”: Arthur Waskow, the Question of Israel/Palestine, and the Effort to Form a Religious Jewish Left in America, 1967–1974; Doug Rossinow.- Chapter 13: Ita Ford and the Spirit of Social Change; Marian Mollin.- Chapter 14: Global Encounters and the Evangelical Left; David R. Swartz.

Autorenportrait

Leilah Danielson is Professor of History at Northern Arizona University, USA.  She has written extensively on the role of religion and race in left politics and the peace movement, and is the author of American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century (2014).    Marian Mollin is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Tech, USA. She is the author of Radical Pacifism in Modern America: Egalitarianism and Protest. Her current book project, The Power of Faith: Understanding the Life and Death of Sister Ita Ford, explores connections between gender, religion, and politics in the postwar era.   Doug Rossinow teaches history at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the author of The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America (1998) and Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America (2007), among other works.

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This edited collection of exciting new scholarship provides comprehensive coverage of the broad sweep of twentieth century religious activism on the American left. The volume covers a diversity of perspectives, including Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish history, and important essays on African-American, Latino, and women’s spirituality. Taken together, these essays offer a comparative and long-term perspective on religious groups and social movements often studied in isolation, and fully integrate faith-based action into the history of progressive social movements and politics in the modern United States. It becomes clear that throughout the twentieth century, religious faith has served as a powerful motivator and generator for activism, not just as on the right, where observers regularly link religion and politics, but on the left. This volume will appeal to historians of modern American politics, religion, and social movements, religious studies scholars, and contemporary activists.

Sonderbeitrag

Offers a comparative and long-term perspective on the intersecting histories of religious radicalism and the secular left Challenges the perception that religion is antagonistic to democratic politics and culture Chapters explore a diverse range of religious groups that contributed to the key social movements of the twentieth century

Unpublished endorsement

“At long last, prayers for a comprehensive and critical study on the religious left in 20th-century U.S. politics and society have been answered with Danielson’s, Mollin’s, and Rossinow’s The Religious Left in Modern America. This superb collection focuses not only on the contributions of Protestants, but also of Catholics and Jews, to struggles for racial equality, economic justice, peace, and human rights at home and abroad.  Bringing together an outstanding group of historians and religious studies scholars, this volume will help set the agenda for the emerging scholarship in the field for years to come.” (Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin-Madison; author of American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas)<div> </div><div>“This is a splendid collection of essays by fine historians about a vital subject that has been hiding in plain sight far too long. In the United States, religious belief has been as essential to the ideas and actions of the liberaland radical left as it has been to those of the right. Anyone who cares about the thorny, inescapable marriage of faith and politics must read this book.” (Michael Kazin, Georgetown University; author of War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918; editor, Dissent magazine)</div><div> </div><div>“Cutting across faith traditions and the entire twentieth century, glimpsing radical social gospels in local and global contexts, and political circumstances of sweeping significance, The Religious Left in Modern America is an important and timely reminder that a dynamic religious left has always operated at the heart of American life. This is the most comprehensive and impressive study of its kind.” (Darren Dochuk, University of Notre Dame; author of From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism)</div>