Introduction: Global gospel, American politics -- Part I. One world. Protestant political mobilization in the Great Depression -- The coming war and the pacifist-realist split -- The World Order movement -- "A non-segregated church and a non-segregated society" -- The anti-racist origins of human rights -- Part II. Two worlds. Beyond the Civil War -- Segregation is a sin -- The responsible society -- Christian economics and the clergy-laity gap -- Epilogue: Global gospel, American fault lines.
Summary:
"For much of the twentieth century it was liberal Protestants who most profoundly shaped American politics. Leaders of this religious community wielded their influence to fight for social justice by marching against segregation, lobbying for the New Deal, and protesting the Vietnam War. In the same way that the rise of the New Right cannot be understood apart from the mobilization of evangelicals, Gene Zubovich shows that the rise of American liberalism in the twentieth century cannot be understood without a historical account of the global political mobilization of liberal Protestants"-- Provided by publisher.
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