Amanda Izzo

Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism: The YWCA of the USA and the Maryknoll Sisters

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Produktbeschreibung

Religiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as products of the conservative turn in Protestant and Catholic life in the latter part of the twentieth century. Amanda L. Izzo argues that, contrary to this view, liberal wings of Christian churches have remained an instrumental presence in US and transnational politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 175mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780813588483
• ISBN-10: 0813588480
• Artikelnr.: 48955311

Autorenporträt

AMANDA L. IZZO is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at St. Louis University in Missouri.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
Part I: Women and Christian Fellowship
in the Early Twentieth Century 15
1 “Life More Abundant”: The YWCA
and the Social Gospel 19
2 “By Love, Serve One Another”: Foreign Mission
and the Changing Meanings of Evangelization 44
3 “Hidden and Effective Service”: The Maryknoll
Sisters Enter the Mission Field 66
Part II: From the Popular Front and
American Century to the New Frontier 89
4 “Dare We Be as Radical as Our Religion
Demands?”: Christian Activism
and the Long Red Scare 93
5 A “Fifth Column for God”: The Maryknoll
Sisters at Midcentury 124
Part III: “The Ferment of Freedom” 153
6 “We Choose to Identify with the Church of
the Poor”: Preferential Option in Action 159
7 “The Nuns Were Not Just Nuns”: Foreign
Mission and Foreign Policy 191
Epilogue 215
Acknowledgments 221
Notes 223
Selected Bibliography 257
Index 267