Abstract
Sherwood Eddy was one of the most influential figures in world Christianity and a major figure in the interwar peace movement, yet he has been neglected by scholars. This essay argues that religion served as the nexus of his radicalization, shaping how he interpreted social reality and imagined social change. The same was true of most other peace activists in the twentieth century; indeed, it is impossible to understand the substance of peace politics in the twentieth‐century United States without reference to religion. By taking religion seriously, we expand the boundaries of peace history and challenge historiographical dichotomies between pacifism and realism, liberal Protestantism and evangelicalism, American Christianity and internationalism, religion and radicalism.
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