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This edited collection of exciting new scholarship provides
comprehensive coverage of the broad sweep of twentieth century
religious activism on the American left. The volume covers a
diversity of perspectives, including Protestant, Catholic, and
Jewish history, and important essays on African-American, Latino,
and women's spirituality. Taken together, these essays offer a
comparative and long-term perspective on religious groups and
social movements often studied in isolation, and fully integrate
faith-based action into the history of progressive social movements
and politics in the modern United States. It becomes clear that
throughout the twentieth century, religious faith has served as a
powerful motivator and generator for activism, not just as on the
right, where observers regularly link religion and politics, but on
the left. This volume will appeal to historians of modern American
politics, religion, and social movements, religious studies
scholars, and contemporary activists.
This edited collection of exciting new scholarship provides
comprehensive coverage of the broad sweep of twentieth century
religious activism on the American left. The volume covers a
diversity of perspectives, including Protestant, Catholic, and
Jewish history, and important essays on African-American, Latino,
and women's spirituality. Taken together, these essays offer a
comparative and long-term perspective on religious groups and
social movements often studied in isolation, and fully integrate
faith-based action into the history of progressive social movements
and politics in the modern United States. It becomes clear that
throughout the twentieth century, religious faith has served as a
powerful motivator and generator for activism, not just as on the
right, where observers regularly link religion and politics, but on
the left. This volume will appeal to historians of modern American
politics, religion, and social movements, religious studies
scholars, and contemporary activists.
Radical Pacifism in Modern America Egalitarianism and Protest
Marian Mollin "Radical Pacifism in Modern America" traces cycles of
success and decline in the radical wing of the American peace
movement, an egalitarian strain of pacifism that stood at the
vanguard of antimilitarist organizing and American radical dissent
from 1940 to 1970. Using traditional archival material and oral
history sources, Marian Mollin examines how gender and race shaped
and limited the political efforts of radical pacifist women and
men, highlighting how activists linked pacifism to militant
masculinity and privileged the priorities of its predominantly
white members. In spite of the invisibility that this framework
imposed on activist women, the history of this movement belies
accounts that relegate women to the margins of American radicalism
and mixed-sex political efforts. Motivated by a strong
egalitarianism, radical pacifist women rejected separatist
organizing strategies and, instead, worked alongside men at the
front lines of the struggle to construct a new paradigm of social
and political change. Their compelling examples of female militancy
and leadership challenge the essentialist association of female
pacifism with motherhood and expand the definition of political
action to include women's political work in both the public and
private spheres. Focusing on the vexed alliance between white peace
activists and black civil rights workers, Mollin similarly details
the difficulties that arose at the points where their movements
overlapped and challenges the seemingly natural association between
peace and civil rights. Emphasizing the actions undertaken by
militant activists, "Radical Pacifism in Modern America"
illuminates the complex relationship between gender, race,
activism, and political culture, identifying critical factors that
simultaneously hindered and facilitated grassroots efforts at
social and political change. Marian Mollin teaches history at
Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Politics and Culture in
Modern America 2006 272 pages 6 x 9 12 illus. ISBN
978-0-8122-3952-2 Cloth $49.95s 32.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-0282-3 Ebook
$49.95s 32.50 World Rights American History Short copy: "Radical
Pacifism in Modern America" illuminates the complex relationships
between gender, race, activism, and political culture, identifying
critical factors that simultaneously hindered and facilitated
grassroots efforts at social and political change.
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