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The Fellowship Church - Howard Thurman and the Twentieth-Century Religious Left (Hardcover)
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The Fellowship Church - Howard Thurman and the Twentieth-Century Religious Left (Hardcover)
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The Fellowship Church explores the evolution of the American
religious left through a case study of the African American
intellectual and theologian Howard Thurman, and the physical
embodiment of his thought: The Church for the Fellowship of All
Peoples. The Fellowship Church, which Thurman co-founded in San
Francisco in 1944, was the nation's first interracial,
intercultural, and interfaith church. Amidst the growing
nationalism of the World War II era and the heightened suspicion of
racial and cultural "others," the Fellowship Church successfully
established a pluralistic community based on the idea that "if
people can come together in worship, over time would emerge a unity
that would be stronger than socially imposed barriers." Rooted in
the belief that social change was inextricably connected to
internal, psychological transformation and the personal realization
of the human community, it was an early expression of Christian
nonviolent activism within the long Civil Rights Movement. The
Fellowship Church was a product of evolving twentieth-century ideas
and a reflection of the shifting mid-century American public
consciousness. This book examines a broad scope of modern themes
including the philosophy of pragmatism; mysticism and Christian
liberalism; racism and imperialism; cosmopolitanism and pluralism;
war and pacifism; and nonviolence. Not only does it expand on our
understanding of twentieth-century American intellectual history
and the origins of the Civil Rights Movement, it offers an exciting
look into ways people have initiated grassroots activism during
times when government has failed to protect its citizens' civil
liberties, safety, and overall wellbeing through judicial
safeguards.
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