RT Book
T1 Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy
T2 Columbia studies in contemporary American history
T2 Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History
A1 Kosek, Joseph Kip
LA English
PP New York, NY
PB Columbia Univ. Press
YR 2009
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/836179080
AB In response to the massive bloodshed that defined the twentieth century, American religious radicals developed a modern form of nonviolent protest, one that combined Christian principles with new uses of mass media. Greatly influenced by the ideas of Mohandas Gandhi, these "acts of conscience" included sit-ins, boycotts, labor strikes, and conscientious objection to war. 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. 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 America's political and religious mainstream.
NO Literaturverz. S. 303 - 332
CN BR517
SN 9780231513050
K1 Nonviolence : Religious aspects : Christianity
K1 Civil Disobedience : Religious aspects : Christianity
K1 Christianity and politics : United States
K1 Christianity and politics
K1 Civil Disobedience
K1 Nonviolence
K1 Culture and History of non-European Territories
K1 Global History
K1 History
K1 Pazifismus
K1 Christentum
K1 Gewaltlosigkeit
K1 Geschichte 1914-1968
K1 HISTORY / United States / General
K1 United States : Church history
DO 10.7312/kose14418