Mississippi Praying : Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975.
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 how Mississippians' intense religious commitments played critical, rather than incidental, roles in their...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 how Mississippians' intense religious commitments played critical, rather than incidental, roles in their response to the movement for black equality. During the civil rights movement and since, it has perplexed many Americans that unabashedly Christian Mississippi could also unapologetically oppress its black population. Yet, as Carolyn Renée Dupont richly details, white southerners' evangelical religion. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (305 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780814723876 081472387X 9780814708415 0814708412 |