Finding faith in foreign policy: religion and American diplomacy in a postsecular world

2021

In recent decades, research into the growing entanglement of faith groups and US foreign policy has added significantly to our understanding that the country’s much-vaunted separation of church and...

The New Deal: A Global History. By Kiran Klaus Patel. Princeton University Press. 2016. xii + 435pp. £24.95.

2017

Evangelical Global Engagement and the American State after World War II

2017

The resurgence of American evangelicalism since the 1940s unfolded in conjunction with efforts by policymakers to instrumentalize religion for the assertion of empire. Missions and foreign aid are two key areas where these dynamics intersected. They show that evangelicals were both at home in the “American century” and deeply critical of global power. Rather than being a weakness, however, these tensions enabled the movement to become a crucial arbiter at a time when the country's new role was not yet firmly legitimized at home. In particular, evangelicalism helped reconcile isolationist, antistatist, and antimilitarist sentiments with hegemonic aspirations, the national security state, and…

Kevin M. Kruse. One Nation under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America.

2018