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Author Pruitt, Nicholas T., author

Title Open hearts, closed doors : immigration reform and the waning of mainline protestantism / Nicholas T. Pruitt
Published New York : New York University Press, [2021]
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 279 pages)
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Settling into Restriction -- 2 The Trying Thirties -- 3 The Huddled Masses the War Produced -- 4 Strangers in Mayberry -- 5 Paving the Way for Pluralism -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary "This book offers a history of mainline Protestant responses to immigrants and refugees during the mid-twentieth century and the ways white Protestants interpreted religious and cultural pluralism during a time of immigration restriction"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 29, 2021)
Subject Protestant churches -- History -- 20th century
Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Protestant churches -- History -- 20th century
RELIGION -- Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Protestant churches
Protestant churches
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020039542
ISBN 1479803561
9781479803576
147980357X
9781479803569