id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt pz50gt58107 Philip D. Byers How Firm the Foundation: The Lilly Endowment and American Christianity, 1937-1989 2020 .txt text/plain 303 13 29 Yet over and over, experience curbed their idealism, and they were forced to negotiate questions of power and interdependence as they cultivated external donors: the story of postwar American religion is, to some degree, a story of which religion managed to win funding. This dissertation addresses two related questions: what does attention to philanthropy reveal about Christianity in the postwar United States, and how does consideration of religion reorient stories about modern, organized giving? cache/pz50gt58107.txt txt/pz50gt58107.txt