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Can Christianity Save Civilisation?: Liberal Protestant Anti‐Secularism in Interwar A merica
Author(s) -
Edwards Mark
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of religious history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9809
pISSN - 0022-4227
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9809.12126
Subject(s) - secularism , secularization , religious studies , protestantism , christianity , civilization , geopolitics , portrait , theology , philosophy , political science , islam , history , law , art history , politics
This article explores the geopolitics of liberal evangelicalism, C hristian R ealism, and the ecumenical movement as collective responses to the rise of “secularism” after W orld W ar I . Alternatively, it considers how liberal P rotestants looked to R oman C atholicism for support in their defence of the C hristian identity of the U nited S tates and the W est more generally. The long history of Christian anti‐secularism in America complicates familiar portraits of liberal Protestants as agents of secularisation.