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Author Zubovich, Gene, author.

Title Before the religious right : liberal Protestants, human rights, and the polarization of the United States / Gene Zubovich
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 391 pages) : illustrations
Series Intellectual history of the modern age
Intellectual history of the modern age.
Contents Introduction : Global Gospel, American Politics -- One World. Protestant Political Mobilization in the Great Depression ; The Coming War and the Pacifist-Realist Split ; The World Order Movement ; "A Non-Segregated Church and a Non-Segregated Society" ; The Anti-racist Origins of Human Rights -- Two Worlds. Beyond the Cold War ; Segregation Is a Sin ; The Responsible Society ; Christian Economics and the Clergy-Laity Gap -- Epilogue : Global Gospel, American Fault Lines
Summary In the same way that the rise of the New Right cannot be understood apart from the mobilization of evangelicals, the author shows that the rise of American liberalism in the twentieth century cannot be understood without a historical account of the global political mobilization of liberal Protestants
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-371) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter platform, viewed May 23, 2022)
Subject Protestant churches -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Protestantism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Liberalism (Religion) -- Protestant churches -- History -- 20th century
Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Protestant churches -- History -- 20th century
Globalization -- Religious aspects -- Protestant churches.
Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Polarization (Social sciences) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Globalization -- Religious aspects -- Protestant churches
Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Protestant churches
Liberalism
Liberalism (Religion) -- Protestant churches
Polarization (Social sciences)
Politics and government
Protestant churches
Protestantism
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140455
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812298291
0812298292