The Fellowship Church : Howard Thurman and the twentieth-century religious left / Amanda Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Amanda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism (Religion).

Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981.

Thurman, Howard.

Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples (San Francisco, Calif.)--History.

Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples (San Francisco, Calif.).

San Francisco (Calif.)--Church history--20th century.

San Francisco (Calif.).

California--San Francisco.

Genre:

Church history.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"The Fellowship Church explores the evolution of the American religious left through a case study of the African American intellectual and theologian, Howard Thurman, and the physical embodiment of his thought, The Church For the Fellowship Peoples. The Fellowship Church, which Thurman co-founded in San Francisco in 1944, was the nation's first interracial, intercultural, and interfaith church. Amidst the growing nationalism of the World War II era and the heightened suspicion of racial and cultural "others," the Fellowship Church successfully established a pluralistic community based on the idea "that if people can come together in worship, over time would emerge a unity that would be stronger than socially imposed barriers." Rooted in the belief that social change was inextricably connected to internal, psychological transformation and the personal realization of the human community, it was an early expression of Christian nonviolent activism within the long Civil Rights Movement. The Fellowship Church was a product of evolving twentieth century ideas and a reflection of the shifting mid-century American public consciousness. This book explores a broad scope of modern historical themes including the philosophy of pragmatism; mysticism and Christian liberalism; racism and imperialism; cosmopolitanism and pluralism; war and pacifism; and nonviolence. It not only expands our understanding of twentieth century American intellectual history and the origins of the Civil Rights Movement, it offers and exciting look into under-explored methods of democracy-building that can inform contemporary social movements"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The American Thinker: Howard Thurman's Mid-Twentieth-Century Pragmatism and the Modern Intellectual Tradition

W. E. B. Du Bois, African American Activism, and the Talented Tenth

Rufus Jones and Affirmation Mysticism

A Modern, Pragmatic, African American Mystic

2. Coloring the Christian Left: Cosmopolitanism, Christian Liberalism, and the Democratic Merits of Second Sight

Spiritual and Colored Cosmopolitanism

The Young Men's Christian Association

The Fellowship of Reconciliation

Gandhi

India

Christian Liberalism for the Minority

3. Wartime San Francisco's Pragmatic Religious Institution: Pluralism and Mysticism within the Burgeoning Fellowship Church

Thurman and the War

The Draw of San Francisco

New Beginnings

Pluralism within the Fellowship Church

Mysticism within the Fellowship Church

Mysticism as Spiritual Practice

Intellectual Supplements

Religious Experience through Art

Practical Implications

4. Another Side of the Christian Left: Institutional Religion and Middlebrow Book Culture

The Fellowship Church's Cosmopolitanism and Christian Liberalism

Cosmopolitan Community

Christian Liberalism

Jesus and the Disinherited

Institutional Christianity and the Historical Jesus

Psychology and Mysticism

Reception.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Brown, Amanda, The Fellowship Church

ISBN:

9780197565131

0197565131

OCLC:

1236899930

Publisher Number:

99988509321