Mississippi Praying : Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975 /

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This book 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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dupont, Carolyn Renee
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Evangelicalism.
Civil rights movements.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Évangelisme > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Evangelicalism > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Mississippi.
Mississippi > Histoire religieuse > 20e siecle.
Mississippi > Church history > 20th century.
History.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : History, White Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement
  • Segregation and the Religious Worlds of White Mississippians
  • Conversations about Race in the Post-War World
  • Responding to Brown : The Recalcitrant Parish
  • "A Strange and Serious Christian Heresy" : Massive Resistance and the Religious Defense of Segregation
  • "Ask for the Old Paths" : Mississippi's Southern Baptists and Segregation
  • "Born of Conviction" : The Travail of Mississippi Methodism
  • The Jackson Church Visits : "A Good Quarter-Time Church with a Bird Dog and Shotgun"
  • "Warped and Distorted Reflections" : Mississippi and the North
  • Race and the Restructuring of American Religion
  • Conclusion : A Theology on the Wrong Side of History.

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