The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace: American Religion in a Decade of ConflictRutgers University Press, 1997 - 271 Seiten If you still hold the notion that the fifties were the "good old days," blessed with incomparable social affluence and widespread family unity, all buttressed by a strong, unconflicted spirituality, then look again. In this compelling narrative of religion in a decade still embraced by an indefatigable nostalgia, Robert Ellwood interrogates the notion of the fifties as an era of normalcy, and proves it to be full of spiritual strife. A companion to his Sixties Spiritual Awakening, Ellwood explores the major Catholic-Protestant tensions of the decade, the conflict between theology and popular faith, and the underground forms of fifties religiosity like "Beat" Zen, UFO contactees, Thomas Merton monasticism, and the Joseph Campbell / Carl Jung revival of mythology. Ellwood frames his detailed and lively account with the provocative idea of the fifties as a "supply-side" free enterprise spiritual marketplace, with heady competition between religious groups and leaders, and with church attendance at a record high. In addition to challenging an idealistic fifties cultural milieu, the book analyzes American religious responses to key historical events like the Korean War, McCarthyism, and the civil rights movement, turning a religious lens on the cultural history of the United States. |
Inhalt
The Years of Dark and Dreaming 19501952 | 34 |
Chapter 2 | 63 |
Part II | 103 |
Chapter 4 | 139 |
Part III | 175 |
Chapter 6 | 206 |
Quiet Confident and Troubled | 227 |
Notes | 237 |
257 | |
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The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace: American Religion in a Decade of Conflict Robert S. Ellwood Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1997 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alan Watts Aldous Aldous Huxley American anticommunism anticommunist Barth Beats Billy Graham bishop bomb called Catholicism Chicago Chris Christ Christian Century clergy cold cold war cold-war Commonweal communism communist conservative Council of Churches culture decade denominations early Fifties editorial evangelical Evanston evil existentialism existentialist faith freedom George Adamski gnostic Hiss human Huxley individual intellectual issue Jack Kerouac Jewish Jews John Judaism Kerouac Korea less liberal Little Rock live magazine mainline mass Matthews McCarthy McCarthy's McCarthyism Methodist minister modern moral mystical neoorthodox Newsweek Norman Vincent Peale Oxnam pacifist Paul Tillich peace percent perhaps Pius XII political Pope popular postwar president Protestant Quaker radical Reinhold Niebuhr religious revival Roman Catholic secular seemed Senator sense Sixties social society Soviet Spellman spiritual Sputnik suburban tension theologians theological Thomas Merton thought tian Tillich tion tradition ultimate underground United University Vatican York young
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