1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970070603321

Autore

Schäfer Axel R

Titolo

Countercultural conservatives : American evangelicalism from the postwar revival to the New Christian Right / / Axel R. Schäfer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2011

ISBN

9786613486202

9781283486200

1283486202

9780299285234

0299285235

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xi, 225 p. : ill

Collana

Studies in American thought and culture

Disciplina

277.308/2

Soggetti

Evangelicalism - United States - History - 20th century

Christian conservatism - United States - History - 20th century

Christianity and politics - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Beyond the "Backlash" -- 1. The Enigma of Conservative Protestantism -- 2. The Postwar Neo-Evangelical Awakening -- 3. The Evangelical Left and the 1960s -- 4. The Rise of the Christian Right -- Conclusion: New Perspectives on American Evangelicalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In the mid-twentieth century, far more evangelicals supported such "liberal" causes as peace, social justice, and environmental protection. Only gradually did the conservative evangelical faction win dominance, allying with the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan and, eventually, George W. Bush. In Countercultural Conservatives Axel Schäfer traces the evolution of a diffuse and pluralistic movement into the political force of the New Christian Right. In forging its complex theological and political identity, evangelicalism did not simply reject the ideas of 1960s counterculture, Schäfer argues. For all their strict Biblicism and uncompromising morality, evangelicals absorbed and extended key aspects of the countercultural worldview. Carefully examining



evangelicalism's internal dynamics, fissures, and coalitions, this book offers an intriguing reinterpretation of the most important development in American religion and politics since World War II.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964583303321

Titolo

Fog of war : the Second World War and the civil rights movement / / edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Stephen Tuck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012

ISBN

9786613426956

9780199913428

0199913420

9780199700196

0199700192

9781283426954

1283426951

9780195382402

0195382404

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 240 pages)

Disciplina

940.53089/96073

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

African Americans - Social conditions - 20th century

Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century

War and society - United States - History - 20th century

World War, 1939-1945 - African Americans

World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects - United States

United States Race relations History 20th century

United States Social conditions 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The Second World War and the civil rights movement / Kevin M. Kruse and Stephen Tuck -- Freedom to want : the federal



government and politicized consumption in World War II / James T. Sparrow -- Confronting the roadblock : Congress, civil rights and World War II / Julian E. Zelizer -- Segregation and the city : white supremacy in Alabama in the mid-twentieth century / J. Mills Thornton III -- Movement building during the World War II era : the NAACP's legal insurgency in the South / Patricia Sullivan -- Hillburn, Hattiesburg, and Hitler : wartime activists think globally and act locally / Thomas Sugrue -- "You can sing and punch...but you can't be a soldier or a man" : African American struggles for a new place in popular culture / Stephen Tuck -- "A war for states' rights" : the white supremacist vision of double victory / Jason Morgan Ward -- The sexual politics of race in World War II America / Jane Dailey -- Civil rights and World War II in a global frame : shape-shifting racial formations and the U.S. encounter with European and Japanese colonialism / Penny Von Eschen -- Race, rights, and nongovernmental organizations at the UN San Francisco Conference : a contested history of "human rights...without discrimination" / Elizabeth Borgwardt -- "Did the battlefield kill Jim Crow?" : the Cold War military, civil rights, and Black freedom struggles / Kimberley L. Phillips.

Sommario/riassunto

"It is well known that World War II gave rise to human rights rhetoric, discredited a racist regime abroad, and provided new opportunities for African Americans to fight, work, and demand equality at home. It would be all too easy to assume that the war was a key stepping stone to the modern civil rights movement. But 'Fog of war' shows that in reality the momentum for civil rights was not so clear cut, with activists facing setbacks as well as successes and their opponents finding ways to establish more rigid defenses for segregation. While the war set the scene for a mass movement, it also narrowed some of the options for Black activists. This collection is a timely reconsideration of the intersection between two of the dominant events of twentieth-century American history, the upheaval wrought by the Second World War and the social revolution brought about by the African American struggle for equality."--