Newberry Seminar on Religion and Culture in the Americas, December 14, 2018

Malachy R. McCarthy Announcement
Location
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields
Religious Studies and Theology

Religion and Culture in the Americas Seminar

 

Sponsors: The Religion and Culture in the Americas Seminar is co-sponsored by Albion College, the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, University of Illinois at Chicago, Valparaiso University and Wheaton College.

 

Friday, December 14, 2018 / 3:00pm to 5:00pm / Room B-84

The Newberry Library / 60 West Walton Street / Chicago IL 60610

 

The End of Days or the Beginning of a New Era?

American Jewish Interfaith Relations in the Age of Evangelicalism

Amy Weiss, College of St. Elizabeth

In examining the history of American Jewish interfaith relations in the 1960s and 1970s, this paper argues that Jewish organizations’ engagement with theologically conservative Christians occurred at a time of fracture for Jews and liberal Protestants.  Evangelicals, who had moved from a subculture to the American mainstream in the postwar period, appealed to American Jewish religious and communal leaders as new allies given their increased influence in American politics and their overwhelming embrace of Israel.  This new conservative Christian hegemony presented American Jewish organizations with an opportunity to establish the first sustained dialogue between Jews and evangelicals in the United States, but it would require a reevaluation of communal priorities.

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Respondent: Kevin Schultz, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

 

Newberry Scholarly Seminar papers are pre-circulated electronically.

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