{"product_id":"for-god-and-globe-9780801452727","title":"For God and Globe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor God and Globe\u003c\/i\u003e recovers the history of an important yet largely forgotten intellectual movement in interwar America. Michael G. Thompson explores the way radical-left and ecumenical Protestant internationalists articulated new understandings of the ethics of international relations between the 1920s and the 1940s. Missionary leaders such as Sherwood Eddy and journalists such as Kirby Page, as well as realist theologians including Reinhold Niebuhr, developed new kinds of religious enterprises devoted to producing knowledge on international relations for public consumption. \u003ci\u003eFor God and Globe \u003c\/i\u003ecenters on the excavation of two such effortsthe leading left-wing Protestant interwar periodical, \u003ci\u003eThe World Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e, and the landmark Oxford 1937 ecumenical world conference. Thompson charts the simultaneous peak and decline of the movement in John Foster Dulles''s ambitious efforts to link Christian internationalism to the cause of international organization after World \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor God and the Globe\u003c\/i\u003e is a careful study of another yet-unexplored period of the role of religion in American life. It sets a high standard as a defining work for the interwar ecumenical movement.\u003c\/p\u003e * The American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Missionaries, Mainliners, and the Making of a MovementPart I. Radical Christian Internationalism at \u003ci\u003eThe World Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e1. Anti-imperialism for Jesus2. \u003ci\u003eThe World Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e as a Foreign Policy Counterpublic3. A Funeral and Two LegaciesPart II. Ecumenical Christian Internationalism at Oxford4. All God's Household5. Race, Nation, and Globe at Oxford 19376. Oxford’s Atlantic Crossing7. The Dulles Commission, the UN, and the Americanization of Christian InternationalismConclusion: Neglected Genealogies\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527607918935,"sku":"9780801452727","price":1659.43,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801452727.jpg?v=1731868523","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/for-god-and-globe-9780801452727","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}