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The spiritual-industrial complex :

0195393465

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The spiritual-industrial complex :

[Book]

America's religious battle against communism in the early Cold War /

Jonathan P. Herzog

New York :

Oxford University Press,

©2011

xi, 273 pages :

illustrations ;

25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Preface -- Introduction -- A colossus of straw -- Enemy -- Political institutions -- Security institutions -- Societal institutions -- The renewal, the critics, and the unraveling -- The remains -- Epilogue

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This fascinating volume shows that American leaders in the early Cold War years considered the conflict to be profoundly religious; they saw Communism not only as godless but also as a sinister form of religion. Fighting faith with faith, they deliberately used religious beliefs and institutions as part of the plan to defeat the Soviet enemy. Herzog offers an illuminating account of the resultant spiritual-industrial complex, chronicling the rhetoric, the programs, and the policies that became its hallmarks. He shows that well-known actions like the addition of the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance were a small part of a much larger and relatively unexplored program that promoted religion nationwide. Herzog shows how these efforts played out in areas of American life both predictable and unexpected--from pulpits and presidential appeals to national faith drives, military training barracks, public school classrooms, and Hollywood epics. Millions of Americans were bombarded with the message that the religious could not be Communists, just a short step from the all-too-common conclusion that the irreligious could not be true Americans. -- Jacket

Cold War

Communism and Christianity

World politics-- 1945-1989

United States, Foreign relations, 1945-1989

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Herzog, Jonathan P.,1981-

20170410065203.1

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