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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457870303321

Autore

Williams Johnny E

Titolo

African American religion and the civil rights movement in Arkansas [[electronic resource] /] / Johnny E. Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2003

ISBN

1-283-43451-2

9786613434517

1-60473-584-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Disciplina

261.7/089/960730767

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights - Arkansas - History

Civil rights movements - Arkansas - History

African American civil rights workers - Religious life - Arkansas

African Americans - Arkansas - Religion

African American churches - Arkansas - History

Religion and politics - Arkansas - History

Electronic books.

Arkansas Race relations

Arkansas Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-171) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Cultural Dimensions of Collective Action; Chapter 2. History of Activist Religious Interpretation; Chapter 3. Church Culture and Sociopolitical Movements during Reconstruction and Post-Reconstruction; Chapter 4. Social Activism Preceding the Desegregation Movement in Little Rock; Chapter 5. Religion's Effect on Mobilizing Civil Rights Protest; Chapter 6. Culture's Centrality in African-American Women's Civil Rights Activism; Chapter 7. Theoretical Conclusions; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J

KL; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

Civil Rights -- Religious History--> What role did religion play in sparking the call for civil rights? Was the African American church a



motivating force or a calming eddy? The conventional view among scholars of the period is that religion as a source for social activism was marginal, conservative, or pacifying. Not so, argues Johnny E. Williams. Focusing on the state of Arkansas as typical in the role of ecclesiastical activism, his book argues that black religion from the period of slavery through the era of segregation provided theological resources that motivated and sustained preachers