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- Title
The International Fellowship of Reconciliation as an ecumenical and interfaith forerunner for human rights.
- Authors
Strübind, Andrea
- Abstract
This article examines the significance of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation for the Civil Rights Movement in the USA. Under the leadership of Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights Movement had been able to mobilise the first non-violent mass protest in the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. The history of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, this major ecumenical-pacifist organisation, has generally been subject to very little research, especially with regard to Europe. The International Fellowship of Reconciliation supported the developing Civil Rights Movement in the USA in idealistic and materialistic respects and in terms of staffing and organisation. In particular, it introduced »know how« and insight into the Gandhi-style methods of non-violent resistance. Nevertheless, the Civil Rights Movement had indisputably generated its own unique character and had a very distinctive profile with respect to theology, practice and spirituality, which was irrevocably associated with the Black Church.
- Subjects
INTERNATIONAL Fellowship of Reconciliation; AMERICAN civil rights movement; NONVIOLENCE -- Religious aspects; CHRISTIANITY
- Publication
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie und Geschichtswissenschaft, 2017, Vol 30, Issue 2, p181
- ISSN
0932-9951
- Publication type
Article