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- Title
Evangelical Global Engagement and the American State after World War II.
- Authors
SCHÄFER, AXEL R.
- Abstract
The resurgence of American evangelicalism since the 1940s unfolded in conjunction with efforts by policymakers to instrumentalize religion for the assertion of empire. Missions and foreign aid are two key areas where these dynamics intersected. They show that evangelicals were both at home in the “American century” and deeply critical of global power. Rather than being a weakness, however, these tensions enabled the movement to become a crucial arbiter at a time when the country's new role was not yet firmly legitimized at home. In particular, evangelicalism helped reconcile isolationist, antistatist, and antimilitarist sentiments with hegemonic aspirations, the national security state, and the military–industrial complex.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EVANGELICALISM; WORLD War II; FOREIGN aid (American); CHRISTIAN missions; MILITARY-industrial complex; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Journal of American Studies, 2017, Vol 51, Issue 4, p1069
- ISSN
0021-8758
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0021875816001377