Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960 - The Soul of Containment

Informationen zum Autor William Inboden is currently the Senior Vice President of the Legatum Institute. He previously served as Senior Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council at the White House. He has also worked at the State Department as a member of the policy planning staff and in the Office of International Religious Freedom, and at the American Enterprise Institute as a Civitas Fellow. Zusammenfassung Presidents Truman and Eisenhower! and many other American leaders! opposed communism because of its hostility to religion. American Protestant churches were divided! and so American political leaders constructed a new civil religion to mobilize domestic support! determine the boundaries of containment! unite people against communism! and undermine communist governments abroad. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I: 1. Hopes deferred: Protestants and foreign policy, 1945-1952; 2. Unity dissolved: Protestants and foreign policy, 1953-1960; Part II: 3. The 'real' Truman Doctrine: Harry Truman's theology of containment; 4. To save China: Protestant missionaries and Sino-American relations; 5. Guided by God: the unusual decision-making of Senator H. Alexander Smith; 6. Chosen by God: John Foster Dulles and America; 7. Prophet, priest, and president: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the New American Faith; Afterword.

Product details

• Authors: William Inboden
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2008
• EAN: 9780521513470
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51347-0
• No. of pages: 372
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, International Relations, Religion: general, United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, History of the Americas, The Cold War, Marxism & Communism