Research Catalog

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Description

1. xii, 352 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "Beginning with World War I and ending with the ascendance of Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph Kip Kosek traces the impact of A.J. Muste, Richard Gregg, and other radical Christian pacifists on American democratic theory and practice. These dissenters found little hope in the secular ideologies of Wilsonian Progressivism, revolutionary Marxism, and Cold War liberalism, all of which embraced organized killing at one time or another. The example of Jesus, they believed, demonstrated the immorality and futility of such violence under any circumstance and for any cause. Yet the theories of Christian nonviolence are anything but fixed. For decades, followers have actively reinterpreted the nonviolent tradition, keeping pace with developments in politics, technology, and culture." "Tracing the rise of militant nonviolence across a century of industrial conflict, imperialism, racial terror, and international warfare, Kosek recovers radical Christians' remarkable stance against the use of deadly force, even during World War II and other seemingly just causes. His research sheds new light on an interracial and transnational movement that posed a fundamental, and still relevant, challenge to the American political and religious mainstream."--Jacket.

Series statement

1. Columbia studies in contemporary American history

Uniform title

1. Columbia studies in contemporary American history

Subject

1. Nonviolence > Religious aspects > Christianity
2. Civil disobedience > Religious aspects > Christianity
3. Christianity and politics > United States
4. Christianity and politics
5. Christentum
6. Gewaltlosigkeit
7. Pazifismus
8. United States > Church history
9. United States
10. USA
11. USA

Genre/Form

1. Church history.

Contents

1. Love and war -- Social evangelism -- The Gandhian moment -- Gandhism and socialism -- Tragic choices -- The age of conscience.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-332) and index.