In the decades following World War II, a movement of clergy and
laity sought to restore liberal Protestantism to the center of
American urban life. Chastened by their failure to avert war and
the Holocaust and troubled by missionaries' complicity with
colonial regimes, they redirected their energies back home. Renewal
explores the rise and fall of this movement, which began as a
simple effort to restore the church's standing but wound up as
nothing less than an openhearted crusade to remake our nation's
cities. These campaigns reached beyond church walls to build or
lend a hand to scores of organizations fighting for welfare, social
justice, and community empowerment among the increasingly non-white
urban working class, dovetailing with the contemporaneous War on
Poverty and black freedom movement. Renewal illuminates the
overlooked story of how religious institutions both shaped, and
were shaped by, postwar urban America.
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