Synopses & Reviews
Moral Re-Armaments followers hailed it as the most important spiritual movement of the twentieth century. It claimed supporters from Mohandas Gandhi to Mae West, who praised its contributions to global understanding and personal happiness. Critics saw MRA as naïve and possibly dangerous, cozy with fascism or a front for corporate power. Fundamentalists called it a cult. With its mixture of American evangelicalism, popular psychology, and show business, it attracted men and women on six continents. This book traces Moral Re-Armaments reinventions over fifty years, from its Ivy League beginnings to its spiritual heirs, Up With People and Alcoholics Anonymous.
About the Author
Daniel Sack is a Historian of American religion and an Administrator at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He has taught at Hope College and Columbia Theological Seminary, and is the author of Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture (Palgrave, 2000). He lives in Chicago.
Table of Contents
The Soul Surgeon * Men Want Something Real * Possessing and Reproducing a Quality of Life * Rising Tide * Change! Unite! Fight! * Ideological Warfare * Tomorrows American * Epilogue: Remaking the World