Kingdom to commune : Protestant pacifist culture between World War I and the Vietnam era / Patricia Appelbaum.
Appelbaum, Patricia Faith.
2009
BT736.6 .A67 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Kingdom to commune : Protestant pacifist culture between World War I and the Vietnam era / Patricia Appelbaum.
Author Appelbaum, Patricia Faith.
ISBN 9780807832677 (alk. paper)
0807832677 (alk. paper)
9780807859384 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807859389 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Language English
Description x, 330 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number BT736.6 .A67 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 261.8/7309730904
Summary 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, vernacular theology, individual spiritual practice, storytelling, identity rituals, and cooperative living. Between World War I and the Vietnam War, she contends, a paradigm shift took place in the Protestant pacifist movement. Pacifism moved from a mainstream position to a sectarian and marginal one, from an embrace of modernity to skepticism about it, and from a Christian center to a purely pacifist one, with an informal, flexible theology. The book begins and ends with biographical profiles of two very different pacifists, Harold Gray and Marjorie Swann. Their stories distill the changing religious culture of American pacifism revealed in Kingdom to Commune.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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I"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.

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