The Great Fight for Democracy, Religion, and the Home: The Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women and the Secularization Process, 1942-1944
Title | The Great Fight for Democracy, Religion, and the Home: The Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women and the Secularization Process, 1942-1944 |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2017 |
Authors | May, Isaac Barnes |
Journal | Peace & Change |
Volume | 42 |
Issue | 1 |
Pagination | 64-92 |
Date Published | 01/2017 |
Abstract | This study examines a peace group created during the Second World War, the Committee Opposed to the Conscription of Women COCW), in order to reframe the apparent secularization of activism in the postwar period. Despite the fact that the COCW did not openly use religious rhetoric, it was a liberal religious project and part of what Patricia Appelbaum describes as "Protestant Pacifist culture." Its members professed religious commitments, and the organization spread its message through religious channels, yet these arguments were stripped of religious language. The complex character of the COCW suggests a need to reconsider scholars' current periodization of the secularization of liberal religious denominations and organizations. The brief history of the COCW indicates that this process had earlier roots than scholars have identified. |
URL | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pech.12218 |