A Stone of Hope : Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow /
The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is not a story of the ultimate triumph of liberal ideas after decades of gradual progress. Rather, it i...
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London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2004]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter 1: Hungry liberals: their sense that something was missing
- Chapter 2: Recovering optimists
- Chapter 3: The prophetic ideas that made civil rights move
- Chapter 4: Prophetic Christian realism and the 1960s generation
- Chapter 5: The civil rights movement as a religious revival
- Chapter 6: Broken churches, broken race: white southern religious leadership and the decline of white supremacy
- Chapter 7: Pulpit versus Pew
- Chapter 8: Segregationist thought in crisis: what the movement was up against
- Conclusions: Gamaliel, Caesar and us
- Appendix: A philosophical note on historical explanation.