Robert Bauman
Fighting to Preserve a Nation's Soul: America's Ecumenical War on Poverty
Fighting to Preserve a Nation's Soul: America's Ecumenical War on Poverty
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Fighting to Preserve a Nation's Soul examines the relationship between religion, race, and the War on Poverty, exploring the efforts of churches, synagogues, and ecumenical organizations to join and fight the war. It also discusses the evolving role of religion in relation to the power balance between church and state and its significance in today's political situation. Robert Bauman surveys all aspects of religion's role in this struggle, paying particular attention to race and the Black Manifesto's challenge to American churches and synagogues to donate resources to the IFCO as reparations for their participation in slavery and racial segregation.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 228 pages
Publication date: 01 November 2021
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Fighting to Preserve a Nation's Soul: Examining the Relationship between Religion, Race, and the War on Poverty
President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, initiated in 1964, continues to shape American society today. Fighting to Preserve a Nation's Soul explores the efforts of churches, synagogues, and ecumenical religious organizations to join and fight the war on poverty. Robert Bauman surveys all aspects of religion's role in this struggle, including the Roman Catholic Church, mainline Protestant churches, Jewish groups, and ecumenical organizations such as the National Council of Churches. He pays particular attention to race, showing how activist priests and other religious leaders connected religion with the antipoverty efforts of the civil rights movement. The Black Manifesto, issued by civil rights and black power activist James Forman in 1969, challenged American churches and synagogues to donate resources to the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) as reparations for their participation in slavery and racial segregation. Bauman expands the argument for a long War on Poverty by exploring the intricate and fundamental connection between religious organizations, social movements, and community antipoverty agencies.
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780820361703
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