By Jonathan P. Herzog
ISBN-10: 0195393465
ISBN-13: 9780195393460
In his farewell deal with, Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the kingdom of the perils of the military-industrial advanced. yet as Jonathan Herzog indicates during this insightful heritage, Eisenhower had spent his presidency contributing to a different, lesser identified, chilly struggle collaboration: the spiritual-industrial complex.
This interesting quantity exhibits that American leaders within the early chilly conflict years thought of the clash to be profoundly non secular; they observed Communism not just as godless but additionally as a sinister kind of faith. combating religion with religion, they intentionally used non secular ideals and associations as a part of the plan to defeat the Soviet enemy. Herzog deals an illuminating account of the ensuing spiritual-industrial advanced, chronicling the rhetoric, the courses, and the regulations that turned its hallmarks. He exhibits that famous activities just like the addition of the phrases ''under God'' to the Pledge of Allegiance have been a small a part of a miles higher and comparatively unexplored application that promoted faith national. Herzog exhibits how those efforts performed out in components of yankee existence either predictable and unexpected--from pulpits and presidential appeals to nationwide religion drives, army education barracks, public university study rooms, and Hollywood epics. hundreds of thousands of american citizens have been bombarded with the message that the spiritual couldn't be Communists, only a brief step from the all-too-common end that the irreligious couldn't be actual americans.
Though the spiritual-industrial advanced declined within the Sixties, its statutes, monuments, and sentiments live to tell the tale as bulwarks opposed to secularism and as reminders that the state rests upon the basis of non secular religion. They proceed to function worthwhile allies for these protecting where of faith in American lifestyles
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78 Intellectuals, academics, and religious leaders sensed in the late 1920s and 1930s that they stood at the threshold of a new and uncertain order wrought by science. Fundamentalism, though not defeated by the fiasco in Tennessee, A Colossus of Straw 31 retreated from the public consciousness. Walter Lippmann’s “acids of modernity” replaced the ancestral order of religious certainty with an age of shifting doubt. ” H. L. Mencken used stronger language to articulate the changing role of religion.
Scopes who openly taught the theory of evolution in his biology classes. 44 Scopes only faced a fine for his actions, but his opponents and supporters soon drew imposing battle lines. ” Bryan’s words conveyed growing disillusionment with secularization. For him the authority of religion in America was at stake. He feared that progressive education and the recent scientific breakthroughs were teaching society to view religion as a superstition. 45 The case’s outcome was never in doubt, but this did not prevent the trial from descending into a carnival of the absurd.
104 Washington witnessed not only the effects of the New Deal but those of world war as well. If ever there was a conflict with the potential to become a holy war for Americans that realigned the relationship between religion and society, it was World War II. Global, vicious, and existential, it produced acts of staggering malevolence and public pledges of a crusade-like quality. It appeared to be a conflict in which church leaders could easily claim the side of good against evil. Such religious dimensions did not entirely escape President Franklin D.
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