American religious pacifism is usually explained in terms of its
practitioners' ethical and philosophical commitments. Patricia
Appelbaum argues that Protestant pacifism, which constituted the
religious center of the large-scale peace movement in the United
States after World War I, is best understood as a culture that
developed dynamically in the broader context of American religious,
historical, and social currents. Exploring piety, practice, and
material religion, Appelbaum describes a surprisingly complex
culture of Protestant pacifism expressed through social networks,
iconography, vernacular theology, individual spiritual practice,
storytelling, identity rituals, and cooperative living. Between
World War I and the Vietnam War, she contends, a paradigm shift
took place in the Protestant pacifist movement. Pacifism moved from
a mainstream position to a sectarian and marginal one, from an
embrace of modernity to skepticism about it, and from a Christian
center to a purely pacifist one, with an informal, flexible
theology. The book begins and ends with biographical profiles of
two very different pacifists, Harold Gray and Marjorie Swann. Their
stories distill the changing religious culture of American pacifism
revealed in Kingdom to Commune.
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