1950: Crossroads of American Religious Life - Softcover

Ellwood, Robert S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0664258131 ISBN 13: 9780664258139

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000

Synopsis

The year 1950 saw the height of the postwar religious boom in America and also the depths of the Cold War. It was a year when religious enthusiasm and postwar affluence coexisted with anxiety about global communism and an ever-present nuclear threat. McCarthyism, the advent of the hydrogen bomb, and the onset of the Korean War provoked ardent and diverse responses from religious leaders and occasioned lively debate in flourishing religious journalism.

Robert Ellwood's 1950 is a cultural time capsule, recovering the impetus for many of today's trends, remembering endings and beginnings, and documenting many other developments in American religious life of fifty years ago. It highlights the parallels and divergences between religious culture then and now.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert S. Ellwood is Professor Emeritus of Religion at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. He is the author of more than a dozen books on comparative religion, including Introducing Religion: From Inside and Outside; Many Peoples, Many Faiths: An Introduction to the Religious Life of Humankind; and The History and Future of Faith: Religion Past, Present, and to Come.

About this edition

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0664258131
• ISBN 13: 9780664258139
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244