Nickerson Michelle M.
Nickerson Michelle M. - Spiritual Criminals How The Camden 28 Put The Vietnam War On Trial - Paperback
Nickerson Michelle M. - Spiritual Criminals How The Camden 28 Put The Vietnam War On Trial - Paperback
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Description: A surprising look at the 28 Catholic radicals who raided a draft board in 1971 and got away with it. When the FBI arrested twenty - eight people in connection to a break - in at a Camden New Jersey draft board in 1971, the Bureau celebrated. The case should have been an easy victory for the department the perpetrators had been caught red - handed attempting to destroy conscription documents for draftees into the Vietnam War. But the results of the trial surprised everyone and in the process shook the foundations of American law politics and religion. In Spiritual Criminals Michelle M. Nickerson shares a complex portrait of the Camden 28, a passionate group of grassroots religious progressives who resisted both their church and their government as they crusaded against the Vietnam War. Founded by priests nuns and devout lay Catholics members of this coalition accepted the risks of felony convictions as the cost of challenging the nation's military - industrial complex and exposing the illegal counterintelligence operations of the FBI. By peeling away the layers of political history theological traditions and the Camden 28's personal stories Nickerson reveals an often - unseen spiritual side of the anti - war movement. At the same time she probes the fractures within the group detailing important conflicts over ideology race sex and gender that resonate in the church and on the political Left today.
Title: Spiritual Criminals How The Camden 28 Put The Vietnam War On Trial
Author(s): Nickerson Michelle M.
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226834382
Pages: 256 Pages, 20 Halftones
Publication Date: 8/23/2024
Category: Religion & Politics
Description: A surprising look at the 28 Catholic radicals who raided a draft board in 1971 and got away with it. When the FBI arrested twenty - eight people in connection to a break - in at a Camden New Jersey draft board in 1971, the Bureau celebrated. The case should have been an easy victory for the department the perpetrators had been caught red - handed attempting to destroy conscription documents for draftees into the Vietnam War. But the results of the trial surprised everyone and in the process shook the foundations of American law politics and religion. In Spiritual Criminals Michelle M. Nickerson shares a complex portrait of the Camden 28, a passionate group of grassroots religious progressives who resisted both their church and their government as they crusaded against the Vietnam War. Founded by priests nuns and devout lay Catholics members of this coalition accepted the risks of felony convictions as the cost of challenging the nation's military - industrial complex and exposing the illegal counterintelligence operations of the FBI. By peeling away the layers of political history theological traditions and the Camden 28's personal stories Nickerson reveals an often - unseen spiritual side of the anti - war movement. At the same time she probes the fractures within the group detailing important conflicts over ideology race sex and gender that resonate in the church and on the political Left today.
Title: Spiritual Criminals How The Camden 28 Put The Vietnam War On Trial
Author(s): Nickerson Michelle M.
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226834382
Pages: 256 Pages, 20 Halftones
Publication Date: 8/23/2024
Category: Religion & Politics
