Monday, October 23, 2017, 07:00pm - 08:30pm

About The Event

The American government entered World War I confident in the knowledge that the United States was a predominantly Protestant country, albeit one which extended religious tolerance to other faiths. By the end of the war, however, the US military and War Department increasingly depicted Judaism and Catholicism as equal partners to Protestantism in the “three faiths of American democracy.” WWI marked a period of critical, although not always intentional, transformations in the ways that American religion was defined and supported by the policies and practices of the government. This talk will explore how these changes came about – who advocated for them? who resisted them? and how was it that Americans gradual began to think of themselves as part of a “Judeo-Christian” country that included Protestants, Catholics, and Jews?

Contact : Pamela Brooks, (908) 322-5007; pbrooks@scotlib.org
Category: New Jersey, Education