Robert H. Craig: Religion and Radical Politics

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Leftist Christians and radical politics in American history<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877229735&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="935_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Religion and Radical Politics</h1> <H2>An Alternative Christian Tradition in the United States</H2> <h3>Robert H. Craig</h3> <P>cloth 0-87722-973-2 $49.95, Oct 92, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Print</FONT> <br>paper 1-56639-335-3 $35.95, Jan 95, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 320 pp 6x9 9 halftones </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"This meticulously researched study....discusses a varied array of movements, organizations, and activists, many largely unstudied, who sought to aid the poor and oppressed through Christian social action....[This] thoughtful, lucid book will engage not only historians but also theologians, ethicists, political scientists, sociologists, indeed anyone interested in the convergence of religion and politics in the United States."</I> <br>&#151<b><I>Journal of American History</I></b><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>Robert Craig explores the history of American left-wing Christians who discovered the convergence between radical politics and Christian faith. He examines the life histories of individuals, movements, and organizations that encompass more than a century of American history and discusses the role of religious activism in movements of social transformation. <p>Craig describes the activists who participated in this (largely ignored) alternative tradition of social action on behalf of the poor. Among those included are Jesse H. Jones, Edward H. Rogers, the Christian Labor Union, and the Knights of labor, which represented workers; Frances Willard and Mother Jones, who worked to improve the status of women and working-class people; Reverdy Ransom, W.E.B. Du Bois, Hubert Harrison, and George Washington Woodbey, who wrestled with the relationship between race and class; Southern radicals, such as Howard Kester, Claude Williams, and the southern Tenant Farmers' Union, which struggled for radical equality; and those involved in the politics of nonviolence, such as Dorothy Day and A.J.. Muste. <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><I>"</I>Religion and Radical Politics<I> is a helpful analysis of several chapters in American a religious history....built around a series of biographical sketches that explore the lives of people such as Terence Powederly, Frances Willard, Mother Jones, George Washington Woodbey, Claude Williams, Howard Kester, Harry F. Ward, A.J. Juste, and Dorothy Day. ...[It] is a remarkably strong book."</I> <br>&#151<b><I>Journal of Church and State</I></b> <p><I>"A major contribution to American history and to Christian ethics. It will be controversial in the best way, raising questions which are the right questions, at least right for those who care for a democracy of human rights, universal participation, and social justice."</I> <br>&#151<b>David J. O'Brien</b>, College of the Holy Cross <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Acknowledgments <br>Introduction <br>1. Nineteenth-Century Labor Radicalism: The Christian Labor Union and the Knights of Labor <br>2. Religion, Women, and Politics: Feminism, Class, and Labor <br>3. The Fractured Vision of Christians and Socialists: The Realities of Class and the Invisibility of Race <br>4. Radical Politics and Southern Prophets: The Struggle for Racial Equality <br>5. The Great Evasion: Religion, Marxism, and the Politics of Nonviolence <br>Conclusion <br>Notes <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Robert H. Craig</b> is Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Mount Union College, Ohio.</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/american.html" TARGET="_top">American Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/religion.html" TARGET="_top">Religion</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877229735&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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