Gene Zubovich
Biographic Data
| ID | 976092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gene Zubovich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gene |
| FAMILY NAME | Zubovich |
| SIGNATURE | ZUBOVICH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9010-4772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exchange on the History of American Liberal Protestantism
This exchange began in Chicago as a roundtable at the American Society for Church History’s annual conference in January 2026. It brought together scholars whose work has pushed the study of American liberal Protestantism in pathbreaking directions. In Chicago, we discussed how we came to study liberal Protestantism, how we defined the boundaries of this community, how we understood its place in American history and the history of liberalism, and…
Christianity, Human Rights, and American Political Polarization
Over the course of the twentieth century, American conceptions of rights became more global. This development—usually described as a move from “civil rights” to “human rights”—was especially acute in American Christian communities. The role of Christianity deserves our attention because of the religion's important role in the conceptualization, popularization, and practice of human rights in the United States and, thanks to Christians’ overseas n…
The Transnational History of the New Right
In August 2021, one of the President’s sons spoke at a far-right meeting in South Dakota, flanked by Mike Lindell and Steve Bannon. The talking points about election fraud were unremarkable, except for the fact that they were being recited by Eduardo Bolsonaro, the third son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Lindell explained that he had met Eduardo “in a divine appointment” earlier that year and learned that the fate of the two countries we…
The U.S. Culture Wars Abroad: Liberal-Evangelical Rivalry and Decolonization in Southern Africa, 1968–1994
Journal Article The U.S. Culture Wars Abroad: Liberal-Evangelical Rivalry and Decolonization in Southern Africa, 1968–1994 Get access Gene Zubovich Gene Zubovich Associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo Readers may contact Zubovich at [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 2, September 2023, Pages 308–332, https://doi.org/10.10…
A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order
This book emerged from lectures delivered at the University of Virginia in November 2016, just days after the election of Donald J. Trump to the U.S. presidency. G. John Ikenberry, a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University addressed an anxious audience concerned about the crisis of liberal internationalism that the election (and Brexit, a few months earlier) had portended. A World Safe for Democracy is both a defen…
U.S. Protestants, Globalization, and the International Origins of the Sixties
Between World War II and the 1960s, Americans’ sense of what constitutes living in a democracy had transformed. Activists in the left-liberal tradition rejected the status quo and became impatient with slow-paced change, emphasized grassroots participation, and called for racial inclusion. The changes in democratic practice were most pronounced among baby boomer youths, who participated in the free speech movement, in the sit-ins and civil rights…
American Protestants and the Era of Anti-racist Human Rights
How Christian conceptions of human rights became associated with anti-racism is the subject of this article. Protestants rooted human rights in a philosophical doctrine called "personalism," whose language of "dignity," the "human family," and the "human person" was first developed in the Methodist-run philosophy department at Boston University at the turn of the century. Personalism, evoked in interwar discussions of racism and colonialism, tran…
Cold War Monks: Buddhism and America's Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia
The United States had many weapons to use against the Soviet Union—from missiles to development aid to blue jeans and cans of Coca Cola. Among the most important were what President Dwight D. Eisenhower called “spiritual weapons,” by which he meant the mobilization of religious communities against communism. The important and growing literature on Cold War religion focuses on Christianity and Europe. Eugene Ford's Cold War Monks is a welcome addi…
For Human Rights Abroad, against Jim Crow at Home: The Political Mobilization of American Ecumenical Protestants in the World War II Era
In 1948, one week before the United Nations (UN) ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Federal Council of Churches (FCC) asked the American public to confront the domestic implications of the global ideas found in the UN document. The FCC, founded in 1908, was the largest Protestant body in the United States, representing at midcentury nearly thirty denominations and approximately one-quarter of the American population. In 1948 …
The Protestant Search for 'the Universal Christian Community' between Decolonization and Communism
This article investigates the history of American Protestant thought about peoples living beyond the North Atlantic West, in Asia in particular, from 1900 to the 1960s. It argues that Protestant thought about the Global South was marked by a tension between universalism and particularism. Protestants believed that their religion was universal because its core insights about the world were meant for everyone. At the same time, Protestant intellect…
Faithful Republic: Religion and Politics in Modern America
Journal Article Faithful Republic: Religion and Politics in Modern America Get access Ed. by Andrew Preston, Bruce J. Schulman, and Julian E. Zelizer. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. viii, 213 pp. $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1222–1223, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav832 Published: 01 March 2016
A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars
The current presidential campaign in the United States is only the latest evidence that Americans are as polarized as they have been in recent memory. One only needs to look at the surprising succe
Cold War Monks: Buddhism and America's Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia
The United States had many weapons to use against the Soviet Union—from missiles to development aid to blue jeans and cans of Coca Cola. Among the most important were what President Dwight D. Eisenhower called “spiritual weapons,” by which he meant the mobilization of religious communities against communism. The important and growing literature on Cold War religion focuses on Christianity and Europe. Eugene Ford's Cold War Monks is a welcome addi…
A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order
This book emerged from lectures delivered at the University of Virginia in November 2016, just days after the election of Donald J. Trump to the U.S. presidency. G. John Ikenberry, a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University addressed an anxious audience concerned about the crisis of liberal internationalism that the election (and Brexit, a few months earlier) had portended. A World Safe for Democracy is both a defen…
For Human Rights Abroad, against Jim Crow at Home: The Political Mobilization of American Ecumenical Protestants in the World War II Era
In 1948, one week before the United Nations (UN) ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Federal Council of Churches (FCC) asked the American public to confront the domestic implications of the global ideas found in the UN document. The FCC, founded in 1908, was the largest Protestant body in the United States, representing at midcentury nearly thirty denominations and approximately one-quarter of the American population. In 1948 …
A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars
The current presidential campaign in the United States is only the latest evidence that Americans are as polarized as they have been in recent memory. One only needs to look at the surprising succe
A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars
The current presidential campaign in the United States is only the latest evidence that Americans are as polarized as they have been in recent memory. One only needs to look at the surprising succe
Faithful Republic: Religion and Politics in Modern America
Journal Article Faithful Republic: Religion and Politics in Modern America Get access Ed. by Andrew Preston, Bruce J. Schulman, and Julian E. Zelizer. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. viii, 213 pp. $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1222–1223, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav832 Published: 01 March 2016
The Protestant Search for 'the Universal Christian Community' between Decolonization and Communism
This article investigates the history of American Protestant thought about peoples living beyond the North Atlantic West, in Asia in particular, from 1900 to the 1960s. It argues that Protestant thought about the Global South was marked by a tension between universalism and particularism. Protestants believed that their religion was universal because its core insights about the world were meant for everyone. At the same time, Protestant intellect…
American Protestants and the Era of Anti-racist Human Rights
How Christian conceptions of human rights became associated with anti-racism is the subject of this article. Protestants rooted human rights in a philosophical doctrine called "personalism," whose language of "dignity," the "human family," and the "human person" was first developed in the Methodist-run philosophy department at Boston University at the turn of the century. Personalism, evoked in interwar discussions of racism and colonialism, tran…
Cold War Monks: Buddhism and America's Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia
The United States had many weapons to use against the Soviet Union—from missiles to development aid to blue jeans and cans of Coca Cola. Among the most important were what President Dwight D. Eisenhower called “spiritual weapons,” by which he meant the mobilization of religious communities against communism. The important and growing literature on Cold War religion focuses on Christianity and Europe. Eugene Ford's Cold War Monks is a welcome addi…
For Human Rights Abroad, against Jim Crow at Home: The Political Mobilization of American Ecumenical Protestants in the World War II Era
In 1948, one week before the United Nations (UN) ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Federal Council of Churches (FCC) asked the American public to confront the domestic implications of the global ideas found in the UN document. The FCC, founded in 1908, was the largest Protestant body in the United States, representing at midcentury nearly thirty denominations and approximately one-quarter of the American population. In 1948 …
U.S. Protestants, Globalization, and the International Origins of the Sixties
Between World War II and the 1960s, Americans’ sense of what constitutes living in a democracy had transformed. Activists in the left-liberal tradition rejected the status quo and became impatient with slow-paced change, emphasized grassroots participation, and called for racial inclusion. The changes in democratic practice were most pronounced among baby boomer youths, who participated in the free speech movement, in the sit-ins and civil rights…
A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order
This book emerged from lectures delivered at the University of Virginia in November 2016, just days after the election of Donald J. Trump to the U.S. presidency. G. John Ikenberry, a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University addressed an anxious audience concerned about the crisis of liberal internationalism that the election (and Brexit, a few months earlier) had portended. A World Safe for Democracy is both a defen…
Christianity, Human Rights, and American Political Polarization
Over the course of the twentieth century, American conceptions of rights became more global. This development—usually described as a move from “civil rights” to “human rights”—was especially acute in American Christian communities. The role of Christianity deserves our attention because of the religion's important role in the conceptualization, popularization, and practice of human rights in the United States and, thanks to Christians’ overseas n…
The Transnational History of the New Right
In August 2021, one of the President’s sons spoke at a far-right meeting in South Dakota, flanked by Mike Lindell and Steve Bannon. The talking points about election fraud were unremarkable, except for the fact that they were being recited by Eduardo Bolsonaro, the third son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Lindell explained that he had met Eduardo “in a divine appointment” earlier that year and learned that the fate of the two countries we…
The U.S. Culture Wars Abroad: Liberal-Evangelical Rivalry and Decolonization in Southern Africa, 1968–1994
Journal Article The U.S. Culture Wars Abroad: Liberal-Evangelical Rivalry and Decolonization in Southern Africa, 1968–1994 Get access Gene Zubovich Gene Zubovich Associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo Readers may contact Zubovich at [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 2, September 2023, Pages 308–332, https://doi.org/10.10…
Exchange on the History of American Liberal Protestantism
This exchange began in Chicago as a roundtable at the American Society for Church History’s annual conference in January 2026. It brought together scholars whose work has pushed the study of American liberal Protestantism in pathbreaking directions. In Chicago, we discussed how we came to study liberal Protestantism, how we defined the boundaries of this community, how we understood its place in American history and the history of liberalism, and…
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