The Gospel of Freedom and Power (eBook)

Protestant Missionaries in American Culture after World War II

Sarah E. Ruble (Autor)

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2012
232 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-3742-9 (ISBN)

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In the decades after World War II, Protestant missionaries abroad were a topic of vigorous public debate. From religious periodicals and Sunday sermons to novels and anthropological monographs, public conversations about missionaries followed a powerful yet paradoxical line of reasoning, namely that people abroad needed greater autonomy from U.S. power and that Americans could best tell others how to use their freedom. In The Gospel of Freedom and Power, Sarah E. Ruble traces and analyzes these public discussions about what it meant for Americans abroad to be good world citizens, placing them firmly in the context of the United States' postwar global dominance.Bringing together a wide range of sources, Ruble seeks to understand how discussions about a relatively small group of Americans working abroad became part of a much larger cultural conversation. She concludes that whether viewed as champions of nationalist revolutions or propagators of the gospel of capitalism, missionaries along with their supporters, interpreters, and critics ultimately both challenged and reinforced a rhetoric of exceptionalism that made Americans the judges of what was good for the rest of the world.

Autor

Sarah E. Ruble is assistant professor of religion at Gustavus Adolphus College.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.9.2012
• Zusatzinfo: notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: American evangelicals and opposition to Uganda homosexuality bill • American evangelicals and support for second Iraq War • American Protestant missions since 1945 • Anglican Communion and homosexuality • anthropologists and Protestant missions since the 1970s • anticolonialism in American Protestant missions • Barbara Kingsolver and The Poisonwood Bible • Billy Graham and missions • C. C. Morrison • changes in missions theory since World War II • Christianity Today and the Cold War • Claude Stipe • cultural studies and American Exceptionalism • David Bergner and The Call • David Stoll • Elisabeth Elliot and No Graven Image • First Free Methodist Church—Seattle WA • First Free Methodist Church—Seattle WA • Free Methodist missions since 1945 • gender and foreign policy since World War II • gender and the Vietnam Syndrome • gender in missions • Good News movement • Hegemonic masculinity • Institute on Religion and Democracy • Institute on Religion and Democracy / • Is God an American? • James Michener and Hawaii • Jean and John Comaroff • John Grisham and The Testament • John Hersey and The Call • Lausanne Conference • Methodist missions in China • Missionary expulsion from China • missions and American foreign policy since World War II • missions and cultural studies • missions in Christianity Today since 1945 • missions in Current Anthropology • missions in the Christian Century since 1945 • Myers Park United Methodist Church—Charlotte NC • Myers Park United Methodist Church—Charlotte NC • Peter Matthiessen and At Play in the Fields of the Lord • post-colonialism and American anthropology since the 1960s • Rene Padilla • the American Century and missions • the Christian Century and the Vietnam War • the Christian Century and U.S. foreign policy since 1945 • The spread of American Exceptionalism in postwar culture • T.O. Beidelman • United Methodist Church and homosexuality • United Methodist missions filmstrips • United Methodist missions since 1945 • United Methodist renewal groups • Wilsonian foreign policy • World Outlook • Wycliffe Bible Translators/Summers Institute of Linguistics
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-3742-3 / 0807837423
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-3742-9 / 9780807837429