Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Promoting Enduring Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-141
Overview
Promoting Enduring Peace was founded in 1952, with headquarters in Woodmont, Connecticut. Principles of the organization included: peace with freedom and justice for all, support for the United Nations, and belief in religion as the fundamental force for righteousness. Today PEP's mission is to conduct peace education promoting the advent of a harmonious planetary commonwealth through the convergence of the worldwide movements for disarmament, social justice, and environmental stewardship as...
Dates:
1949-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
André Trocmé and Magda Trocmé Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-107
Overview
André and Magda Trocmé are perhaps best known for their work in the small French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon where, during World War II, they inspired the villagers to help protect and sometimes to assist in the escape of Jews and other poltiical refugees. In 1938, André Trocmé, and his pacifist colleague Édouard Theis, founded L'Ecole Nouvelle Cévenol in Le Chambon, a Protestant, co-educational secondary school, with a curriculum of tolerance, honesty, and nonviolence. By 1942 the Germans...
Dates:
1919-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
U. S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-188
Overview
Founded in 1987, the U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East grew out of three interreligious study tours to the Middle East and exploratory consultations with more than 100 Jewish, Christian, and Muslim leaders between 1985 and 1987.
Dates:
1982-1996
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
World Conference on Religion and Peace, USA Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-059
Abstract
In the early 1960s religious leaders, Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath and Dana McLean Greeley (Unitarian-Universalist) independently saw the need for national confernce on religion and peace. The organized the National Inter-religious Conference on Peace held March 15-17, 1966, in Washington, D.C., which brought together clergymen and laymen from all peace oriented viewpoints to discuss the relation of religion to peace. Minister and peace activist Homer A. Jack was also involved in organizing the...
Dates:
1962-1989
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
World Fellowship, Inc. Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-World Fellowship
Dates:
1924-; Majority of material found within 1939-1989
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
World Peacemakers, Inc. Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-World Peacemakers, Inc.
Dates:
1978-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
