FORUM: American Religion and the Great Depression

Few topics seem more natural and, sadly, timelier than American religion in bad economic times, our own or the economic depression of the 1930s. The essays by Heather Curtis, Jonathan Ebel, and Alison Greene point up how little we know about religion in the 1930s and, by implication, how little reli...

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Published in:Church history 2011-09, Vol.80 (3), p.575-578
Main Author: Butler, Jon
Format: Article
Language:English
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19th-20th century
Analysis
Bible
Catholicism
Christian history
Christianity
Church and state
Clergy
Depressions
Economic depression
Economic depressions
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Great Depression
Historians
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History and sciences of religions
Jews
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Men
Mental depression
Migrants
Missionaries
Modern period
New Deal
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Religion
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Sociological studies
Spirituality
Theology
United States history
Women
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Summary:Few topics seem more natural and, sadly, timelier than American religion in bad economic times, our own or the economic depression of the 1930s. The essays by Heather Curtis, Jonathan Ebel, and Alison Greene point up how little we know about religion in the 1930s and, by implication, how little religion has informed policy during our own economic downturn. Perhaps our own crisis is still too new or we are distracted by the “Christian nation” debate or the latest clerical sex scandal. Whatever the cause, Curtis, Ebel, and Greene demonstrate that in the 1930s religion and economic dislocation produced remarkable religious challenges and transformations whose similarities as well as differences underlined their sometimes fateful intersection.
ISSN:0009-6407
1755-2613
DOI:10.1017/S0009640711000631