William Inboden

Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960 (eBook, PDF)

The Soul of Containment

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Cold War was in many ways a religious war. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower and other American leaders believed that human rights and freedom were endowed by God, that God had called the United States to defend liberty, and that Soviet communism was evil because of its atheism and enmity to religion. Along with security and economic concerns, these religious convictions helped determine both how the United States defined the enemy and how it fought the conflict. Meanwhile, American Protestant churches failed to seize the moment. Internal differences over theology and politics, and resistance to cooperation with Catholics and Jews, hindered Protestant leaders domestically and internationally. Frustrated by these internecine disputes, Truman and Eisenhower attempted to construct a new civil religion to mobilize domestic support for Cold War measures, determine the strategic boundaries of containment, unite all religious faiths against communism, and to undermine the authority of communist governments abroad.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511421464
• Artikelnr.: 38204424

Autorenporträt

William Inboden is currently the Senior Vice President of the Legatum Institute. He previously served as Senior Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council at the White House. He has also worked at the State Department as a member of the policy planning staff and in the Office of International Religious Freedom, and at the American Enterprise Institute as a Civitas Fellow.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: 1. Hopes deferred: Protestants and foreign policy, 1945-1952
2. Unity dissolved: Protestants and foreign policy, 1953-1960
Part II: 3. The 'real' Truman Doctrine: Harry Truman's theology of containment
4. To save China: Protestant missionaries and Sino-American relations
5. Guided by God: the unusual decision-making of Senator H. Alexander Smith
6. Chosen by God: John Foster Dulles and America
7. Prophet, priest, and president: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the New American Faith
Afterword.