Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

6/1/1972 - 12/31/1972

Funding Totals

$8,750.00 (approved)
$8,750.00 (awarded)


Buchmanism: A Transitional Movement in Secular Religion

FAIN: FB-11433-72

Texas State University - San Marcos (San Marcos, TX 78666-4684)
Elston J. Hill (Project Director: June 1972 to present)

To study "Buchmanism," a twentieth century religious and ideological movement, and its founder Frank N.D. Buchman (1878-1961). Buchman founded an "ideological" movement known as the Oxford Group or Moral Re-Armament which felt that the only alternative to a Communist world was a "dictatorship of the Holy Spirit."