TY - BOOK ID - 86060963 TI - Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism PY - 2018 SN - 0813588502 0813588499 0813588480 9780813588490 9780813588506 9780813588483 9780813588476 0813588472 PB - New Brunswick, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Church and social problems KW - Christianity and social problems KW - Social problems and Christianity KW - Social problems and the church KW - Social problems KW - History KW - Maryknoll Sisters KW - YWCA of the U.S.A. KW - Teresians KW - Sisters of Maryknoll KW - Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic KW - Congregation of the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic KW - Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic KW - Congregatio Sororum Sancti Dominici de Maryknoll KW - O.P. KW - OP (Maryknoll Sisters) KW - Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America KW - YWCA USA KW - YWCA (YWCA of the U.S.A.) KW - Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. KW - YWCA. KW - catholic. KW - civil rights. KW - protestant. KW - social change. KW - social progress. KW - traditional family. KW - women's history. KW - young women's christian association. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86060963 AB - Religiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as products of the conservative turn in Protestant and Catholic life in the latter part of the twentieth century, with women's mobilizations centering on defense of the "traditional" family. In Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism, Amanda L. Izzo argues that, contrary to this view, liberal wings of Christian churches have remained an instrumental presence in U.S. and transnational politics. Women have been at the forefront of such efforts. Focusing on the histories of two highly influential groups, the Young Women's Christian Association of the USA, an interdenominational Protestant organization, and the Maryknoll Sisters, a Roman Catholic religious order, Izzo offers new perspectives on the contributions of these women to transnational social movements, women's history, and religious studies, as she traces the connections between turn-of-the-century Christian women's reform culture and liberal and left-wing religious social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Izzo suggests that shared ethical, theological, and institutional underpinnings can transcend denominational divides, and that strategies for social change often associated with secular feminism have ties to spiritually inspired social movements. ER -