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Zietsma, David.

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Imagining heaven and hell: Religion, national identity, and United States foreign relations, 1930--1953.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Imagining heaven and hell: Religion, national identity, and United States foreign relations, 1930--1953./
Author:	Zietsma, David.
Description:	495 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Walter L. Hixson.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-09A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3280836
ISBN:	9780549225089

Imagining heaven and hell: Religion, national identity, and United States foreign relations, 1930--1953.
Zietsma, David.

Imagining heaven and hell: Religion, national identity, and United States foreign relations, 1930--1953. - 495 p.

Adviser: Walter L. Hixson.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Akron, 2007.

This dissertation argues that religiously framed narratives of national identity conditioned the United States approach to the world from 1930 to 1953. When the Great Depression called into question U.S. manifest destiny, Americans reified their divine chosenness first through a "good neighbor" national image and later through a narrative imagining the United States as a righteous nation battling evil enemies. During the Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman administrations, competing religious groups/organizations provided the language and images through which national these identity narratives attained their form. The destabilizing impact of the Depression allowed the temporary ascendance of Protestant liberal modernist discourse and an attendant surge in popularity for cooperative internationalism. When the good neighbor narrative failed to reconcile Americans' experience in the world with their neighborly picture of the world, a gradual shift toward the language/imagery of neo-orthodox realism occurred as Americans began imagining the United States as a righteous defender against the evil Axis powers. World War II empowered fundamentalist Christianity, enabling a postwar transition that gradually marginalized the vestiges of pre-war religious modernism and again depicted the United States as a righteous nation, this time battling the godless Soviet Union on behalf of God-ordained free market economics and political democracy.

ISBN: 9780549225089Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

Imagining heaven and hell: Religion, national identity, and United States foreign relations, 1930--1953.
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