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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455386403321

Autore

Appelbaum Patricia Faith

Titolo

Kingdom to commune [[electronic resource] ] : Protestant pacifist culture between World War I and the Vietnam era / / Patricia Appelbaum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009

ISBN

1-4696-0597-X

0-8078-8976-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

261.8/7309730904

Soggetti

Nonviolence - Religious aspects - Historic peace churches

Pacifism - Religious aspects - Historic peace churches

Peace - Religious aspects - Historic peace churches

Nonviolence - United States - History - 20th century

Pacifism - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

United States Church history 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-313) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- "Character 'bad'" : Harold Gray -- From YMCA to CPS : Pacifist social networks -- The Protestant heart : Pacifist theology -- The Pacifist vernacular -- Performing Pacifism : worship, plays, and pageants -- Swords and plowshares : Pacifist iconography -- "The practice of the presence" : Pacifist spirituality -- Training for peace : Richard Gregg and the realignment of Pacifist life -- Milking goats for peace : a new paradigm -- "Victories without violence" : Pacifist stories -- "Bad mother" : Marjorie Swann.

Sommario/riassunto

American religious pacifism is usually explained in terms of its practitioners' ethical and philosophical commitments. Patricia Appelbaum argues that Protestant pacifism, which constituted the religious center of the large-scale peace movement in the United States after World War I, is best understood as a culture that developed dynamically in the broader context of American religious, historical, and social currents. Exploring piety, practice, and material religion,



Appelbaum describes a surprisingly complex culture of Protestant pacifism expressed through social networks, iconography