Modern American Religion, Volume 3: Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960

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University of Chicago Press, 1986 - History - 555 pages
In this third volume of his acclaimed chronicle of faith in twentieth-century America, Martin E. Marty presents the first authoritative account of American religious culture from the entry of the United States into World War II through the Eisenhower years.

Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960 is the first book to systematically address religion and the roles it played in shaping the social and political life of mid-century America. A work of exceptional clarity and historical depth, it will interest general readers as well as historians of American and church history.

"The series will become a standard account of the nation's variegated religious culture during the current century. The four volumes, the fruition of decades of research, may rank as much honored Marty's most significant contribution to U.S. studies."—Richard N. Ostling, Time

"When America needs some advice or commentary on the state of modern theology, the person it turns to is Martin Marty."—Publishers Weekly

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Contents

The Binding Tie of Cohesive Sentiment
1
INDIVISIBLE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 19411945
15
Damn War Damn Pacifism
17
The Whole Moral Ambiguity of Warfare
35
The Jewish Problem
54
This War Is Crucial for the Future of the Negro
67
A Japs a Jap
76
The Christian Church Is Reintegrating
89
UNDER GOD DURING THE EISENHOWER PRESIDENCY
275
A Civic Religion of the American Way of Life
294
The Popular Religious Revival Is Tied
313
Men Locked Together in Argument
331
Is There a Pink Fringe?
354
True Integration Will Be Achieved
376
In Unblushing Competition for the American Soul
399
Frontiers of American Catholicism
426

Here Ceaseless Vigilance Is Required
103
ONE NATION EARLY IN THE Cold War 19451952
113
The Vital Center
115
Can Protestantism Win America?
135
Stating the Catholic Attitude with Every Frankness
157
That Each American Jew Become a Zionist
180
The Ultimate Fate of Protestantism Remains in Doubt
439
The Boundless Community of the Best
457
Notes
477
Index
529
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Martin E. Marty is co-director of the Fundamentalism Project and the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of modern Christianity at the University of Chicago. He is the senior editor of Christian Century. His many books include the multivolume Modern American Religion, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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