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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Main Author: Chappell, David L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Religieuze aspecten.
Segregatie.
Civil Rights Movement.
Bürgerrecht
Rassentrennung
Religion
Race relations.
Civil rights workers > Religious life.
Civil rights > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Civil rights movements.
Church and social problems.
Christianity and politics.
African Americans > Segregation.
African Americans > Civil rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
15.85 history of America.
Droits de l'homme > Aspect religieux > Christianisme > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Defenseurs des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Vie religieuse > 20e siecle.
Église et problemes sociaux > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Christianisme et politique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Aspect religieux > Christianisme > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Defenseurs des droits de l'homme > Vie religieuse > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Segregation > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Civil rights > United States > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > 20th century.
Church and social problems > United States > History > 20th century.
Christianity and politics > United States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > Religious life > United States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Segregation > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
USA.
Schwarze.
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire religieuse > 20e siecle.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States > Church history > 20th century.
United States > Race relations.
History.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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