1950: Crossroads of American Religious Life

The year 1950 saw the height of the postwar religious boom in America and also the depths of the Cold War. It was a year when religious enthusiasm and postwar affluence coexisted with anxiety about global communism and an ever-present nuclear threat. McCarthyism, the advent of the hydrogen bomb, and the onset of the Korean War provoked ardent and diverse responses from religious leaders and occasioned lively debate in flourishing religious journalism.

Robert Ellwood's 1950 is a cultural time capsule, recovering the impetus for many of today's trends, remembering endings and beginnings, and documenting many other developments in American religious life of fifty years ago. It highlights the parallels and divergences between religious culture then and now.

Author: Robert S. Ellwood
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 05/01/2000
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780664258139

About the Author
Ellwood, Robert S.: - Robert S. Ellwood is Professor Emeritus of Religion at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. He is the author of more than a dozen books on comparative religion, including Introducing Religion: From Inside and Outside; Many Peoples, Many Faiths: An Introduction to the Religious Life of Humankind; and The History and Future of Faith: Religion Past, Present, and to Come.