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Author : Richard L. Zweigenhaft
Release : 1982-11-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 722/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Jews in the Protestant Establishment by : Richard L. Zweigenhaft
Download or read book Jews in the Protestant Establishment written by Richard L. Zweigenhaft. This book was released on 1982-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Digby Baltzell
Release : 1987-01-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Protestant Establishment by : Edward Digby Baltzell
Download or read book The Protestant Establishment written by Edward Digby Baltzell. This book was released on 1987-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic account of the traditional upper class in America traces its origins, lifestyles, and political and social attitudes from the time of Theodore Roosevelt to that of John F. Kennedy. Sociologist E. Digby Baltzell describes the problems of exclusion and prejudice within the community of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (or WASPs, an acronym he coined) and predicts with amazing accuracy what will happen when this inbred group is forced to share privilege and power with talented members of minority groups. "The book may actually hold more interest today than when it was first published. New generations of readers can resonate all the more to this masterly and beautifully written work that provides sociological understanding of its engrossing subject."--Robert K. Merton, Columbia University "The documentation and illustration in the book make it valuable as social history, quite apart from any theoretical hypothesis. As such, it sketches the rise of the WASP penchant for country clubs, patriotic societies and genealogy. It traces the history of anti-Semitism in America. It describes the intellectual conflict between Social Darwinism and the environmental social science founded half a century ago by men like John Dewey, Charles A. Beard, Thorstein Veblen, Franz Boas and Frederick Jackson Turner. In short, The Protestant Establishment is a wide-ranging, intelligent and provocative book."--Alvin Toffler, New York Times Book Review "The Protestant Establishment has many virtues that lift it above the level we have come to expect in works of contemporary social and cultural analysis. It is clearly and convincingly written."--H. Stuart Hughes, New York Review of Books "What makes Baltzell's analysis of the evolution of the American elite superior to the accounts of earlier writers . . . is that he exposes the connections between high social status and political and economic power."--Dennis H. Wrong, Commentary
Author : Richard L. Zweigenhaft
Release : 1982
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Jews in the Protestant Establishment by : Richard L. Zweigenhaft
Download or read book Jews in the Protestant Establishment written by Richard L. Zweigenhaft. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William R. Hutchison
Release : 1990-11-30
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Between the Times by : William R. Hutchison
Download or read book Between the Times written by William R. Hutchison. This book was released on 1990-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first six decades of this century, the so-called mainline Protestant denominations in America were compelled to accommodate to the growing influences of diverse religions and growing secularization. In this book, twelve historians examine the nature of the American Protestant establishment and its response to the growing pluralism of the times. The goals of the establishment are first examined from the inside, as they were voiced from the pulpit, expressed in education and through the media, and applied in ecumenical and social-reforming ventures. The establishment is then viewed through the eyes of outsiders - Jews and Catholics - and those at the periphery of the establishment's core - and women. The authors conclude that the period surveyed forms a distinct epoch in the evolution of American Protestantism. The days when Protestant cultural authority could be taken for granted were certainly over, but a new era in which religious pluralism would be widely accepted had not yet arrived.
Author : Jonathan Frankel
Release : 2010-08-25
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Protestant-Jewish Conundrum by : Jonathan Frankel
Download or read book The Protestant-Jewish Conundrum written by Jonathan Frankel. This book was released on 2010-08-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes up the problem of relations between the various Protestant churches and Jews, Judaism, and the State of Israel. Among the subjects discussed are: the attitudes of the Evangelical movement toward Jews and Israel; German Protestantism during World War II; mainstream Protestant churches and the question of Israeli policy; Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ;" and the history of relations between Protestantism and Judaism and they developed since the Reformation up to the present day.
