... to the study’s application to histories of denominational institutions and home missions, politics and nativism, race, and gender. As they witnessed increasing diversity, mainline Protestants worked to shed the vestiges of virulent nativism from the prior century. Mainline Protestants worked to promote...

...This chapter continues to assess home mission programs and traces the diffusion of the social gospel within traditional, evangelistic ministries among mainline Protestants. Meanwhile, denominations were forced to retrench their budgets for home missions during the Great Depression. During this time...

...This chapter covers the World War II era and early Cold War period. During this period, mainline Protestants often promoted an “American Way of Life” while attending to Asian immigrants, Bracero workers, Japanese Americans in internment camps, and refugees through home missions. Nevertheless...

... the importance of immigration and American national identity. Mainline Protestants were accustomed to serving as cultural gatekeepers for much of US history, but they found their hold on an increasingly diverse American society much more tenuous as the twentieth century unfolded. Evident in their home missions...

...This chapter provides a closer look at how mainline Protestants interpreted increasing pluralism following World War II as the Cold War unfolded. As America set itself apart from foreign powers whose ideology was considered “godless” (i.e., Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union), home missions...

.... Americanization Bennett Katherine Bureau of Education US Department of Interior Christian Americanization Council of Women for Home Missions CWHM Department of Interior US education educational programs English language immigrants immigration policies language s nationalism Pruitt Nicholas public...

... feminism as they justified the value of their separate women’s organizations and redefined “missions” to a much larger program of “Christianizing” social, racial, and world relations. American Society of Church History bureaucracy Council of Women for Home Missions CWHM ecumenical Protestantism...

...This chapter examines home missions during the latter half of the 1920s and Protestant responses to congressional legislation. This chapter identifies the social gospel’s influence on mainline Protestant ministries among immigrant and ethnic communities, in addition to providing a survey...