The Fellowship Church: Howard Thurman and the Twentieth-Century Religious Left

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The Fellowship Church
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Howard Thurman Timeline
Introduction
1. The American Thinker: Howard Thurman’s Mid-​Twentieth-​Century Pragmatism and the Modern Intellectual Tradition
	W. E. B. Du Bois, African American Activism, and the Talented Tenth
	Rufus Jones and Affirmation Mysticism
	A Modern, Pragmatic, African American Mystic
2. Coloring the Christian Left: Cosmopolitanism, Christian Liberalism, and the Democratic Merits of Second Sight
	Spiritual and Colored Cosmopolitanism
		The Young Men’s Christian Association
		The Fellowship of Reconciliation
		Gandhi
		India
	Christian Liberalism for the Minority
3. Wartime San Francisco’s Pragmatic Religious Institution: Pluralism and Mysticism within the Burgeoning Fellowship Church
	Thurman and the War
	The Draw of San Francisco
	New Beginnings
	Pluralism within the Fellowship Church
	Mysticism within the Fellowship Church
		Mysticism as Spiritual Practice
		Intellectual Supplements
		Religious Experience through Art
		Practical Implications
4. Another Side of the Christian Left: Institutional Religion and Middlebrow Book Culture
	The Fellowship Church’s Cosmopolitanism and Christian Liberalism
		Cosmopolitan Community
		Christian Liberalism
		Jesus and the Disinherited
		Institutional Christianity and the Historical Jesus
		Psychology and Mysticism
		Reception
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index
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