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Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church’s response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. (His only other work that has been as widely commended is Errand into the Wilderness,a collection of essays and articles that can be read in pieces and.
PERRY MILLER ERRAND INTO THE WILDERNESS DRIVER
By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power.Īllison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. The phrase errand into the wilderness is taken from a 1956 book by Perry Miller with this title, where it refers to the Puritan dream of creating a city. 46, America 24/7 : 24 hours, 7 days : extraordinary. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. 45, Errand into the wilderness, Perry Miller, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1956. Errand Into the Wilderness Volume 81 of A Harvard paperback: Author: Perry Miller: Edition: unabridged: Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2009: ISBN: 0674041070, 9780674041073: Length: 256. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency’s concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA(U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power.Michael Graziano’s intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller’s Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin’s Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism.
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In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. Fittingly, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Michael Graziano’s intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller’s Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin’s Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency.