RT Book
T1 The fellowship church: Howard Thurman and the twentieth-century religious left
A1 Brown, Amanda
LA English
PP New York, NY
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1747945048
AB "The Fellowship Church explores the evolution of the American religious left through a case study of the African American intellectual and theologian, Howard Thurman, and the physical embodiment of his thought, The Church For the Fellowship Peoples. The Fellowship Church, which Thurman co-founded in San Francisco in 1944, was the nation's first interracial, intercultural, and interfaith church. Amidst the growing nationalism of the World War II era and the heightened suspicion of racial and cultural "others," the Fellowship Church successfully established a pluralistic community based on the idea "that if people can come together in worship, over time would emerge a unity that would be stronger than socially imposed barriers." Rooted in the belief that social change was inextricably connected to internal, psychological transformation and the personal realization of the human community, it was an early expression of Christian nonviolent activism within the long Civil Rights Movement. The Fellowship Church was a product of evolving twentieth century ideas and a reflection of the shifting mid-century American public consciousness. This book explores a broad scope of modern historical themes including the philosophy of pragmatism; mysticism and Christian liberalism; racism and imperialism; cosmopolitanism and pluralism; war and pacifism; and nonviolence. It not only expands our understanding of twentieth century American intellectual history and the origins of the Civil Rights Movement, it offers and exciting look into under-explored methods of democracy-building that can inform contemporary social movements"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BX9999.S3
SN 9780197565131
K1 Thurman, Howard : 1900-1981
K1 Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples (San Francisco, Calif.) : History
K1 Liberalism (Religion)
K1 San Francisco (Calif.) : Church history : 20th century