Renewal

Liberal Protestants and the American City After World War II

Mark Wild (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2019
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-60523-4 (ISBN)

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In the decades following World War II, a movement of clergy and laity sought to restore liberal Protestantism to the center of American urban life. Chastened by their failure to avert war and the Holocaust and troubled by missionaries' complicity with colonial regimes, they redirected their energies back home. Renewal explores the rise and fall of this movement, which began as a simple effort to restore the church's standing but wound up as nothing less than an openhearted crusade to remake our nation's cities. These campaigns reached beyond church walls to build or lend a hand to scores of organizations fighting for welfare, social justice, and community empowerment among the increasingly non-white urban working class, dovetailing with the contemporaneous War on Poverty and black freedom movement. Renewal illuminates the overlooked story of how religious institutions both shaped, and were shaped by, postwar urban America.

Mark Wild is professor of history at California State University, Los Angeles.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2019
Reihe/Serie	Historical Studies of Urban America
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
ISBN-10	0-226-60523-X / 022660523X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-60523-4 / 9780226605234
Zustand	Neuware