Author:
Cook, Vaneesa Marie, author.
Edition Statement:1st edition.
ImprintPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Description260 pages ; 24 cm
Note:Introduction. Cultivating the Kingdom of God -- Chapter 1. Reconstructing Socialism in the Wake of World War I -- Chapter 2. The Kingdom of God in the City and the Country -- Chapter 3. Spiritual Power and the Kingdom Abroad -- Chapter 4. The Religious Left and the Red Scare -- Chapter 5. Socialism of the Heart -- Conclusion. Spiritual Socialists in the Twenty-First Century.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"This book falls into the subject areas of the history of American religion and politics. It is about progressive religious people in the twentieth-century United States. It is about a political tradition in the United States that the author calls "spiritual socialism." This tradition is an organic American tradition that champions human values and moral dimensions such as caring for the sick and the exploited, treating each other better in daily life, and favoring the local over the global."-- Provided by publisher.
