"A Completely Fresh Reappraisal of War": Americanism, Radicalism, and the Catholic Pacifism of Gordon Zahn

Gordon C. Zahn (1918-2007) was a Catholic sociologist and pacifist whose research was shaped by and helped shape post-World War II Catholicism in the United States. For when Zahn's most well-known book, In Solitary Witness: the Life and Death of Franz Jägerstätter, was published in 1964, it was...

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Main Author: Peters, Benjamin (Author)
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Published: American Catholic Historical Society [2017]
In: American catholic studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 128, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-27
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBQ North America
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