Fellowship Church - Howard Thurman and the Twentieth-Century Religious Left

The Fellowship Church is an essential read for anyone interested in the history of race in the United States, American religion, and nonviolent social activism. The Fellowship Church, established in wartime San Francisco in 1944, was the United States' first interracial, intercultural, and interfaith church. Co-founded by the African American intellectual and theologian Howard Thurman, it was an early expression of nonviolence within the long Civil Rights Movement. Amanda Brown offers an exciting look into ways Americans have initiated grassroots activism during times when government has failed to protect its citizens' civil liberties, safety, and overall wellbeing through judicial safeguards. It is an important contribution to our understanding of modern American thought that can also inform contemporary social movement building.

List of contents

• LIST OF FIGURES


• ABBREVIATIONS


• HOWARD THURMAN TIMELINE


• INTRODUCTION


• I. THE AMERICAN THINKER


• W.E.B. Du Bois, African American Activism, and the "Talented Tenth"


• Rufus Jones and Affirmation Mysticism


• A Modern, Pragmatic, African American Mystic


• II. COLORING THE CHRISTIAN LEFT


• Spiritual and Colored Cosmopolitanism


• YMCA


• FOR


• Gandhi


• India


• Christian Liberalism for the Minority


• III. WARTIME SAN FRANCISCO'S PRAGMATIC RELIGIOUS INSTITTUION


• Thurman and the War


• The Draw of San Francisco


• New Beginnings


• Pluralism within the Fellowship Church


• Mysticism within the Fellowship Church


• Mysticism as Spiritual Practice


• Intellectual Supplements


• Religious Experience Through Art


• Practical Implications


• IV: ANOTHER SIDE OF THE CHRISTIAN LEFT


• The Fellowship Church's Cosmopolitanism and Christian Liberalism


• Cosmopolitan Community


• Christian Liberalism


• Jesus and the Disinherited


• Institutional Christianity and the Historical Jesus


• Psychology and Mysticism


• Reception


• CONCLUSION


• BIBLIOGRAPHY

About the author

Amanda Brown is an American intellectual and cultural historian and an adjunct professor of History at Lehigh University. She earned a Ph.D. in History as well as an M.A. in American Studies from Lehigh and she also holds B.A.'s in American Studies and Advertising from Penn State University.

Additional text

Amanda Brown makes an important contribution to both fields with The Fellowship Church.

Product details

• Authors: Amanda Brown, Amanda (Adjunct Professor of History Brown
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2021
• EAN: 9780197565131
• ISBN: 978-0-19-756513-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, Religion & politics, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Religion and Politics, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)