- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
-
Introduction Religion and Progressive Activism—Introducing and Mapping the Field -
Part I Patterns of Progressive Religious Mobilization and Engagement -
1 Achieving and Leveraging Diversity through Faith-Based Organizing -
2 Progressive Religious Activists and Democratic Party Politics -
3 Why Congregations Mobilize for Progressive Causes -
4 Collective Identity and Movement Solidarity among Religious Left Activists in the U.S. -
Part II Cultural Challenges of Progressive Religious Activism -
5 Cultural Challenges for Mainline Protestant Political Progressives -
6 Activist Etiquette in the Multicultural Immigrant Rights Movement -
7 Challenges and Opportunities of Community Organizing in Suburban Congregations -
Part III The Roles of Religion in Progressive Political Action -
8 Religious Roots of New Left Radicalism -
9 Religious Culture and Immigrant Civic Participation -
10 Progressive Activism among Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims in the U.S. -
11 Religious Beliefs and Perceptions of Repression in the U.S. and Swedish Plowshares Movements -
Part IV Distinctive Styles of Progressive Religious Talk in the Public Sphere -
12 Reviving the Civil Religious Tradition -
13 Strategic Storytelling by Nuns on the Bus -
14 “Neutral” Talk in Educating for Activism -
15 How Moral Talk Connects Faith and Social Justice -
Conclusion What Progressive Efforts Tell Us about Faith and Politics - About the Contributors
- Index
Religious Roots of New Left Radicalism
Religious Roots of New Left Radicalism
- Chapter:
- (p.183) 8 Religious Roots of New Left Radicalism
- Source:
- Religion and Progressive Activism
- Author(s):
Joshua Z. Gahr
Michael P. Young
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
Joshua Z. Gahr and Michael P. Young’s chapter provides a historical analysis of the somewhat counterintuitive, yet central, role that Protestant institutions played in the emergence of the new Left. Through a case study of the Christian Faith-and-Life Community at the University of Texas at Austin from 1955 to 1962, the chapter documents how a group of liberal Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist clergy pushed university students to reconceive the Church’s “mission-in-the-world” and their personal witness to this mission in ways that unleashed a moral “breakthrough.”
Keywords: Protestant, new Left, Christian Faith-and-Life Community, University of Texas at Austin, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Mission
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
-
Introduction Religion and Progressive Activism—Introducing and Mapping the Field -
Part I Patterns of Progressive Religious Mobilization and Engagement -
1 Achieving and Leveraging Diversity through Faith-Based Organizing -
2 Progressive Religious Activists and Democratic Party Politics -
3 Why Congregations Mobilize for Progressive Causes -
4 Collective Identity and Movement Solidarity among Religious Left Activists in the U.S. -
Part II Cultural Challenges of Progressive Religious Activism -
5 Cultural Challenges for Mainline Protestant Political Progressives -
6 Activist Etiquette in the Multicultural Immigrant Rights Movement -
7 Challenges and Opportunities of Community Organizing in Suburban Congregations -
Part III The Roles of Religion in Progressive Political Action -
8 Religious Roots of New Left Radicalism -
9 Religious Culture and Immigrant Civic Participation -
10 Progressive Activism among Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims in the U.S. -
11 Religious Beliefs and Perceptions of Repression in the U.S. and Swedish Plowshares Movements -
Part IV Distinctive Styles of Progressive Religious Talk in the Public Sphere -
12 Reviving the Civil Religious Tradition -
13 Strategic Storytelling by Nuns on the Bus -
14 “Neutral” Talk in Educating for Activism -
15 How Moral Talk Connects Faith and Social Justice -
Conclusion What Progressive Efforts Tell Us about Faith and Politics - About the Contributors
- Index
