02870nam 22004455 450 991079897820332120200229105050.00-300-20373-X0-300-22527-X10.12987/9780300225273(CKB)3710000000918285(MiAaPQ)EBC4728137(DE-B1597)540152(DE-B1597)9780300225273(OCoLC)961456427(EXLCZ)99371000000091828520200229h20162016 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierSurge of Piety Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life /Christopher LaneNew Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]©20161 online resource (221 pages)Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Religio-Psychiatry Arrives in New York -- II. On the Couch with Freud -- III. From Acute Shyness to "World Conquest" -- IV. The Peale-Hoover-Eisenhower Empire -- V. Psychiatry Goes to Church -- VI. Religion and Mental Health Rebalanced -- Coda. Faith as an Ongoing Force -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- IndexThe dramatic untold story of how Norman Vincent Peale and a handful of conservative allies fueled the massive rise of religiosity in the United States during the 1950s Near the height of Cold War hysteria, when the threat of all-out nuclear war felt real and perilous, American minister Norman Vincent Peale published The Power of Positive Thinking. Selling millions of copies worldwide, the book offered a gospel of self-assurance in an age of mass anxiety. Despite Peale's success and his ties to powerful conservatives such as Dwight D. Eisenhower, J. Edgar Hoover, and Joseph McCarthy, the full story of his movement has never been told. Christopher Lane shows how the famed minister's brand of Christian psychology inflamed the nation's religious revival by promoting the concept that belief in God was essential to the health and harmony of all Americans. We learn in vivid detail how Peale and his powerful supporters orchestrated major changes in a nation newly defined as living "under God." This blurring of the lines between religion and medicine would reshape religion as we know it in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.ReligionUnited StatesHistory20th centuryUnited StatesfastReligionHistory285.7092Lane Christopher, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut691880DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910798978203321Surge of Piety3770814UNINA