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Surge of Piety - Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life (Hardcover)
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Surge of Piety - Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life (Hardcover)
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The 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.
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