God-Fearing and Free: A Spiritual History of America's Cold War
The Cold War can be understood as a time of multiple crises, when the fate of the world hung on the decisions of the few. Jason Stevens provides insight into this extended moment of crisis by focusing on the role that Christianity played in the production of U.S. culture during the period between th...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2013, Volume: 55, Issue: 3, Pages: 1-3 |
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| Summary: | The Cold War can be understood as a time of multiple crises, when the fate of the world hung on the decisions of the few. Jason Stevens provides insight into this extended moment of crisis by focusing on the role that Christianity played in the production of U.S. culture during the period between the U.S. acceptance of Winston Churchill's “Iron Curtain” thesis and the first rounds of escalation of U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia (i.e., 1947–1965). Stevens centers his exploration of the period on the theme of innocence. This approach to spiritual history also allows for an interesting discussion of the concomitant concepts of guilt and sin., Stevens, assistant professor of English at Harvard, casts Reinhold Niebuhr and Billy Graham as his main protagonists for this project. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/cst048 |