Description: The year 1950 saw the height of the postwar religious boom in America and also the depths of the Cold War. It was a year when religious enthusiasm and postwar affluence coexisted with anxiety about global communism and an ever-present nuclear threat. McCarthyism, the advent of the hydrogen bomb, and the onset of the Korean War provoked ardent...
Brief description: Robert S. Ellwood is Professor Emeritus of Religion at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. He is the author of more than a dozen books on comparative religion, including Introducing Religion: From Inside and Outside; Many Peoples, Many Faiths: An Introduction to the Religious Life of Humankind; and The History and Future of Faith: Religion Past, Present, and to Come.