Sittser, A Cautious Patriotism - The American Churches And The Second World War

Authors

  • Jill Gill Boise State University

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https://doi.org/10.33043/TH.27.2.108-109

Abstract

Many histories mention briefly the role of churches in feeding the pacifistic isolationism of Americans as World War II first spread across Europe. In A Cautious Patriotism, Gerald Sittser presents us with the first comprehensive overview of the American churches' reactions and responses to World War II from the late 1930s to 1945. Using religious periodicals and denominational meeting minutes as his main primary sources, he surveys the thoughts and actions of Christian churches as wide ranging as fundamentalists and liberals, Protestants and Catholics, pacifists and internationalists. He concludes that with few exceptions the churches approached World War II with "a cautious patriotism."

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Published

2002-09-01

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Gill, Jill. 2002. “Sittser, A Cautious Patriotism - The American Churches And The Second World War”. Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 27 (2):108-9. https://doi.org/10.33043/TH.27.2.108-109.

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Vol. 27 No. 2 (2002)

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Copyright (c) 2002 Jill K. Gill

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