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Kosek, Joseph Kip.

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Spectacles of conscience: Christian nonviolence and the transformation of American democracy, 1914--1956.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Spectacles of conscience: Christian nonviolence and the transformation of American democracy, 1914--1956./
Author:	Kosek, Joseph Kip.
Description:	376 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 0998.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-03A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3125234
ISBN:	0496725247

Spectacles of conscience: Christian nonviolence and the transformation of American democracy, 1914--1956.
Kosek, Joseph Kip.

Spectacles of conscience: Christian nonviolence and the transformation of American democracy, 1914--1956. - 376 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 0998.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2004.

This project charts the emergence of a modern form of Christian nonviolence and its surprising influence on American social thought and political culture. I focus on the intellectuals and reformers who became leaders of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), a radical Christian pacifist organization. Between World War I and the Montgomery bus boycott, they transformed American democracy through the development of "spectacles of conscience," public displays of moral dissent such as sit-ins, boycotts, interracial association, and conscientious objection to war. Fellowship leaders, including such figures as A. J. Muste and Bayard Rustin, became the most important pioneers of nonviolent direct action, particularly through their interpretation and application of the ideas of Mohandas Gandhi. By using moral dramas as nonviolent weapons, these radical Christian pacifists influenced the labor movement, black freedom struggles, and the New Left. This project thus cuts across the political history of American liberalism and radicalism, the intellectual and religious history of ideas about violence, and the cultural development of modern forms of mass media, sympathy, and spectatorship.

ISBN: 0496725247Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

Spectacles of conscience: Christian nonviolence and the transformation of American democracy, 1914--1956.
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