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Lutherans and the Longest War - Adrift on a Sea of Doubt about the Cold and Vietnam Wars, 1964-1975 (Hardcover)
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Lutherans and the Longest War - Adrift on a Sea of Doubt about the Cold and Vietnam Wars, 1964-1975 (Hardcover)
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Through the lens of American Lutheranism, this book offers a unique
examination into the intersection of religion, war, foreign policy,
church politics, and nationalism during the contentious 1960s and
1970s. It contributes a two-pronged investigation of American
history during the Vietnam War era. First, it outlines how this
diverse group of Christians understood foreign policy and the
churches' relationship to it. Lutherans offer a broad spectrum of
religious, political, and diplomatic points of view because they
never have represented a homogenous or unified group in U.S.
history. Second, this investigation provides the perspective of one
cross section of Americans who often remain hidden from historic
memory: the silent majority as so labeled during the Richard M.
Nixon administration. Most Lutherans held 'moderate' religious and
political ideologies, but Lutherans also had representatives from
the far left and far right. Lutherans also signify the Cold War
context of this decade with a relatively uniform hostility toward
the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. Yet,
simultaneously they vigorously debated whether or not Communists
had infiltrated U.S. institutions and contentiously disagreed about
the Vietnam War. Further reflecting America at that time, by the
mid-1970s they had reached a tentative reconciliation with one
another because the infighting had so tired them. In doing so, they
healed some of the wounds created by a decade of conflict but
failed to learn lessons from the experience because they refused to
dialogue further about it.
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