North American churches and the Cold War / edited by Paul Mojzes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Norman A. Hjelm -- Canadian Christian approaches to the Cold War -- Notes form the least comfortable chair in the room / James Christie -- Canadian churches and the Cold War, 1975-1990 / Lois Wilson -- "Has God a lobby in Ottawa?": the Protestant left in the United Church of Canada during the Vietnam War, 1966-1968 / Gayle Thrift -- The cruise missile debate in the Canadian parliament / Bill Blaikie -- Watson Kirkconnell's covert war against Communism / Gordon L. Heath -- Snapshots from the northern front: Canadian church experiences during the Cold War / James Christie -- US mainline Protestant approaches -- The National Council of Churches and the Cold War / Jill K. Gill -- US-USSR church relations, 1956-1991 / Bruce Rigdon, Barbara Green, John Lindner -- Niebuhrian realism, Cold War realities and the ethics of empire / Gary Dorrien -- "The path is meant to be well worn": reflections on full communion in the Cold War / Frederick R. Trost -- Howard Thurman, Martin Luther King Jr., the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and postwar liberal black Protestantism / Peter Eisenstadt -- Ecumenical responses to Cold War issues / James E. Will -- Memoirs of a participant in east-west dialogues / Charles West -- Roman Catholic approaches -- Catholic anti-communism and the early Cold War / Dianne Kirby -- American Catholicism and US intelligence in the early Cold War / Michael Graziano -- Changing course: the American Catholic bishops and the decline of anti-communism during the Cold War / Todd Scribner -- Where should a catholic stand?: George Weigel and J. Bryan Hehir debate the fate of Just War Theory / Raymond Haberski Jr. -- Eastern Orthodox approaches -- The Orthodox Church in America: steering through the Cold War / Leonid Kishkovsky -- Sustaining the fatherland in exile: commemoration and ritual during the Cold War / Nicholas Denysenko -- The Russian Orthodox Church abroad, the Moscow patriarchate, and their participation in ecumenical assemblies during the Cold War, 1948-1964 / Andrei V. Psarev, Nadieszda Kizenko -- Fascists, communists, bishops, and spies: Romanian Orthodox churches during the Cold War / Lucian Turcescu -- Redressing religious freedom: anti-communism and the rejection of Orthodox Christianity as the "fourth major faith" / Dellas Oliver Herbel -- Evangelical approaches -- Evangelicals and empire: white conservative Protestants in US Cold War politics and society / Axel R. Schäfer -- The limits of evangelical Christian nationalism during the Cold War / Daniel G. Hummel -- The great undecided group: Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, and the evangelical debate over nuclear weapons / Jeremy Hatfield -- From cold war to culture wars: the Institute on Religion and Democracy / Steven M. Tipton -- Cold War connections: the vital center of liberal and conservative evangelicalism / Mark Thomas Edwards -- Peace activities -- American peace churches and the Cold War / Walter Sawatsky -- "For, not of, the CPC": Christians Associated for Relations with Eastern Europe (CAREE) as a study in soft power peace advocacy / Joseph Loya, OSA -- An American perspective on the Cold War's impact on Christian-Marxist dialogue / Paul Mojzes -- Lessons learned -- American Christians and the challenge of the cold war / David Little.