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The Gospel of Freedom and Power

Protestant Missionaries in American Culture After World War II

by Sarah E. Ruble

  • Paperback
  • 232 pages
  • Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
  • 13.8 x 21.4 x 1.8 cm

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In the decades after World War II, Protestant missionaries abroad were a topic of vigorous public debate. From religious periodicals and Sunday sermons to novels and anthropological monographs, public conversations about missionaries followed a powerful yet paradoxical line of reasoning, namely that people abroad needed greater autonomy from U.S. power and that Americans could best tell others how to use their freedom. In "The Gospel of Freedom and Power," Sarah E. Ruble traces and analyzes these public discussions about what it meant for Americans abroad to be good world citizens, placing them firmly in the context of the United States' postwar global dominance.Bringing together a wide range of sources, Ruble seeks to understand how discussions about a relatively small group of Americans working abroad became part of a much larger cultural conversation. She concludes that whether viewed as champions of nationalist revolutions or propagators of the gospel of capitalism, missionaries--along with their supporters, interpreters, and critics--ultimately both challenged and reinforced a rhetoric of exceptionalism that made Americans the judges of what was good for the rest of the world.
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  • Author

    Sarah E. Ruble

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    The University of North Carolina Press

  • Published

    August 2014

  • Weight

    296g

  • Page Count

    232

  • Dimensions

    13.8 x 21.4 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781469618937

  • ISBN-10

    1469618931

  • Eden Code

    4282544

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