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Caught In The Middle: Navigating The Clergy-Laity Gap During The Vietnam War, Jill Gill
Caught In The Middle: Navigating The Clergy-Laity Gap During The Vietnam War, Jill Gill
Jill K. Gill
Executives within many mainline denominations, such as the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, were frustrated by their inability to inspire widespread debate and action at the congregational level about the Vietnam War Using the UPCUSA as a case study, this article argues that parish clergy functioned as the primary bottlenecks between the denominations and the congregations, constricting the flow of information largely because of their uncomfortable, precarious, middle position between liberal leadership and more conservative laity. By ming clergy journals and citing pastors in their own words, this essay illustrates the ambivalence local ministers felt toward …
Religious Responses To The Second World War, Jill Gill
Religious Responses To The Second World War, Jill Gill
Jill K. Gill
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Religion And Clergy, Jill Gill
Religious Communities And The Vietnam War, Jill Gill
Religious Communities And The Vietnam War, Jill Gill
Jill K. Gill
No abstract provided.
'Mississippi Summer Project 1964' And 'National Council Of Churches', Jill Gill
'Mississippi Summer Project 1964' And 'National Council Of Churches', Jill Gill
Jill K. Gill
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'Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.' And 'Federal/National Council Of Churches', Jill Gill
'Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.' And 'Federal/National Council Of Churches', Jill Gill
Jill K. Gill
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"Peace Is Not The Absence Of War But The Presence Of Justice": The National Council Of Churches' Reaction And Response To The Vietnam War, 1965-1972, Jill Gill
Jill K. Gill
This dissertation examines responses of the National Council of Churches to moral, religious, political and socio-cultural issues surrounding American involvement in Vietnam 1965-1972. It does so by focusing upon NCC views of peace and justice as they were first developed within a process of cultural communication among ecumenical leaders in the NCC and constituent denominations; it then examines how these were aimed at persuading its denominational membership, grassroots Christians, and the government to a view of justice that the NCC believed would ensure domestic and international peace. Historical and ethnographic methods were used to research communication within the NCC, and …