Open hearts, closed doors : immigration reform and the waning of mainline protestantism /

A history of mainline Protestant responses to immigrants and refugees during the twentieth centuryOpen Hearts, Closed Doorsuncovers the largely overlooked role that liberal Protestants played in fostering cultural diversity in America and pushing for new immigration laws during the forty years follo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pruitt, Nicholas T. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Authors:	De Gruyter, Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2021] New York, NY : [2021]
Subjects:	1900-1999 20th century Emigration and immigration > Religious aspects > Protestant churches > History > 20th century Protestant churches > History > 20th century Emigration and immigration > Religious aspects > Protestant churches History Protestant churches RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict Americanization Asian exclusion Braceros Church World Service Cold War Great Depression Immigration Act of 1924 Immigration Act of 1965 Japanese immigrants Japanese internment Jewish refugees McCarran-Walter Act Second Red Scare World War II cultural pluralism gender home missions immigration policy immigration nativism race refugee resettlement refugees religious pluralism social gospel twentieth century Dictionaries

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Settling into Restriction
2 The Trying Thirties
3 The Huddled Masses the War Produced
4 Strangers in Mayberry
5 Paving the Way for Pluralism
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Frontmatter
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Settling into Restriction
2 The Trying Thirties
3 The Huddled Masses the War Produced
4 Strangers in Mayberry
5 Paving the Way for Pluralism
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Frontmatter
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Settling into Restriction
2 The Trying Thirties
3 The Huddled Masses the War Produced
4 Strangers in Mayberry
5 Paving the Way for Pluralism
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Open hearts, closed doors : immigration reform and the waning of mainline protestantism /

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