Mississippi praying southern white evangelicals and the Civil Rights movement, 1945-1975

Winner of the 2013 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize presented by the American Society of Church History Mississippi Praying examines the faith communities at ground-zero of the racial revolution that rocked America. This religious history of white Mississippians in the civil rights era shows h...

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Autor principal: Dupont, Carolyn Renee (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press c2013.
Edición:1st ed
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Segregation and the Religious Worlds of White Mississippians
  • 2. Conversations about Race in the Post-War World
  • 3. Responding to Brown
  • 4. “A Strange and Serious Christian Heresy”
  • 5. “Ask for the Old Paths”
  • 6. “Born of Conviction”
  • 7. The Jackson Church Visits
  • 8. “Warped and Distorted Reflections”
  • 9. Race and the Restructuring of American Religion
  • Conclusion. A Theology on the Wrong Side of History
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author