![]() ![]() Click Sign in through your institution. ![]() Shibboleth / Open Athens technology is used to provide single sign-on between your institution’s website and Oxford Academic. This authentication occurs automatically, and it is not possible to sign out of an IP authenticated account.Ĭhoose this option to get remote access when outside your institution. Typically, access is provided across an institutional network to a range of IP addresses. If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in one of the following ways: Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. This idea of religion suffused American policymaking in the early Cold War era. OSS chief “Wild Bill” Donovan was himself a Catholic, and he popularized the notion that religion “was everywhere, free, and individual: a natural ally in war and diplomacy” (p. Such a high-profile embarrassment hardly slowed the OSS’s religious approach, however. Catholic allies in Italy provided a tantalizing cache of information on the Axis Powers, even though one of the most promising sources-which purported to reveal Japanese war plans and ended up on the desk of President Roosevelt-turned out to be the fabrication of an Italian pornographer. Catholicism “was foreign enough to be worthy of study but familiar enough to be interpretable” (p. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor to the CIA, began developing a religious approach by forging alliances with Catholics during WWII. The Iranian revolution shattered the religious models that intelligence operatives had spent three-plus decades constructing. This paradigm led CIA officers, State Department officials, and US presidents to view “religion” as an ally in the Cold War, even as it obscured the nuances and contexts that shaped the religious worlds of people around the globe. In seven tightly argued chapters, Michael Graziano charts the development of a “world religions paradigm” in both the academy and the United States’ intelligence services from WWII through Vietnam. In part this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage.This creative study of the CIA’s “religious approach” to fighting the Cold War joins a growing body of scholarship examining the intersection of religion and foreign affairs. Language eng Summary "Michael Graziano investigates the religious conceptions of those who shaped and worked for the CIA, arguing that the Catholicism of key CIA figures-such as "Wild" Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale-was decisive in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. United States, Central Intelligence Agency - History.United States, Office of Strategic Services - Religion.United States, Office of Strategic Services - History.United States, Central Intelligence Agency - Religion.National security - United States - Religious aspects.Intelligence service - United States - History - 20th century.Label Errand into the wilderness of mirrors : religion and the history of the CIA Title Errand into the wilderness of mirrors Title remainder religion and the history of the CIA Statement of responsibility Michael Graziano Title variation Religion and the history of the CIA Creator ![]()
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