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DRAKE, J. G., The Gospel of Church. How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement. Oxford University Press, 2023. 328p. Hardback. With astonishing archival findings and narrative lucidity, The Gospel of Church supplies a beautiful primer on the religious debates that originate the modern labor movement. Janine Drake exposes how Christian leaders turned against union organizing to preserve their universalizing hold on the moral order. This is a book appears just as socialism experiences a revitalized presence in public conversation and Christian nationalism is on the rise. Required reading for activists, agitators, educators, and historians who want to understand when and why so many American Christians got scared of strikes. Kathryn Lofton, author of Consuming Religion Feb 2024 |a 14/02/2024 (Publisher's information). € 31.24 (New) (approx. delivery time: 14 days) ISBN: 9780197614303