Renewal
Liberal Protestants and the American City after World War II
336 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2019
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“Highly recommended. A significant addition to the literature on urban studies. . . . Readers will find Wild’s book a helpful introduction to key figures in American religious history. His prose is accessible and his footnotes are instructive. . . . .Unpacking Wild’s arguments will be well worth the effort.”
Martin E. Marty | Sightings
“Disciplined, well-researched. . . Mark Wild’s noteworthy Renewal deserves attention on its own, especially as it throws light on how liberal Protestantism held sway over the “climate of opinion” and then lost it. . . . I can think of few better reckonings with the liberal Protestant efforts to invent new ministries and even new theologies to help “wise” leaders not only cope with the challenges of the times but perhaps even to thrive.”
Diane Winston | author of Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army
"A must-read for scholars of American religious history and twentieth-century American social history. Renewal is encyclopedic in its detail, and Wild masterfully creates a cohesive narrative about seemingly disparate aspects of postwar culture."
Darren Dochuk | author of From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and t
“In this superb book, Wild taps a vast range of primary sources to piece together an eye-opening account of how a dynamic religious movement of urban renewal sought to save the post–World War II American city and mainline church from socioeconomic and spiritual crises of their own making. Cutting from Harlem to Houston, from Detroit to Los Angeles—and across the heart of the twentieth century—Wild elegantly captures the lofty hopes, street-level determination, unavoidable frustrations, and unsolvable paradoxes that shaded second-wave social gospelers’ radical theology and attendant quest to engage and heal the secular urban world. This is a major addition to the history of liberal religion, and political action, in the modern era.”
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History: Urban History
Religion: Christianity | Religion and Society
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