Renewal : Liberal Protestants and the American City after World War II / Mark Wild.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wild, Mark, Author.

Series:

Historical studies of urban America.

Chicago scholarship online.

Historical Studies of Urban America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--United States--Religious aspects.

Cities and towns.

Protestantism--United States--History--20th century.

Protestantism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 pages).

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 an 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 nonwhite urban working class. Church leaders extended their efforts far beyond traditional evangelicalism, often dovetailing with many of the contemporaneous social currents coursing through the nation, including black freedom movements and the War on Poverty. Renewal illuminates the overlooked story of how religious institutions both shaped and were shaped by postwar urban America.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

ONE. The Urban Problem

TWO. The New Generation

THREE. The Holistic Church

FOUR. Cleaving

FIVE. Secular Ministries, Secular Theologies

SIX. Renewal and the African American Mainline

SEVEN. Boom and Bust

EIGHT. The Pluralistic Church

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Appendix 1: Note on Denominational Terms

Appendix 2: Postwar Urban Populations

Appendix 3

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226605371

022660537X

OCLC:

1086610756