The Religious Left in Modern America

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Other Social Gospelers: The Working-Class Religious Left, 1877–1920

Chapter 3 The Social Gospel, the YMCA, and the Emergence of the Religious Left After World War I

Chapter 4 Judaism, Yiddish Peoplehood, and American Radicalism

Chapter 5 Dorothy Day, Religion, and the Left

Chapter 6 “Saints for this Age”: Religion and Radicalism in the American Century

Chapter 7 Resisting Jim Crow Colonialism: Black Christianity and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement

Chapter 8 To Save the Soul of the Nation: Martin Luther King, Jr., Christian America, and the Religious Left

Chapter 10 Black Power/Black Faith: Rethinking the “De-Christianization” of the Black Freedom Struggle

Chapter 11 “Pray to God; She Will Hear Us”: Women Reimagining Religion and Politics in the 1970s

Chapter 12 “The 1900-Year Crisis”: Arthur Waskow, the Question of Israel/Palestine, and the Effort to Form a Jewish Religious Left in America, 1967–1974

Chapter 13 Ita Ford and the Spirit of Social Change

Chapter 14 Global Encounters and the Evangelical Left