04438nam 2200745 a 450 991082143620332120200520144314.097866121573251-282-15732-91-4008-2973-910.1515/9781400829736(CKB)2550000000018942(EBL)457868(OCoLC)436879054(SSID)ssj0000164070(PQKBManifestationID)11179947(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164070(PQKBWorkID)10119981(PQKB)11615647(MdBmJHUP)muse43047(DE-B1597)453666(OCoLC)979581679(DE-B1597)9781400829736(Au-PeEL)EBL457868(CaPaEBR)ebr10312580(CaONFJC)MIL215732(MiAaPQ)EBC457868(EXLCZ)99255000000001894220080409d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrGod and race in American politics a short history /Mark A. NollCourse BookPrinceton Princeton University Pressc20081 online resource (223 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-12536-8 0-691-14629-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Introduction --Chapter I .The Bible, Slavery, and the "Irrepressible Conflict" --Chapter II. The Origins of African-American Religious Agency --Chapter III. The Churches, "Redemption," and Jim Crow --Chapter IV. Religion and the Civil Rights Movement --Chapter V. The Civil Rights Movement as the Fulcrum of Recent Political History --Theological Conclusion --Notes --IndexReligion has been a powerful political force throughout American history. When race enters the mix the results have been some of our greatest triumphs as a nation--and some of our most shameful failures. In this important book, Mark Noll, one of the most influential historians of American religion writing today, traces the explosive political effects of the religious intermingling with race. Noll demonstrates how supporters and opponents of slavery and segregation drew equally on the Bible to justify the morality of their positions. He shows how a common evangelical heritage supported Jim Crow discrimination and contributed powerfully to the black theology of liberation preached by Martin Luther King Jr. In probing such connections, Noll takes readers from the 1830 slave revolt of Nat Turner through Reconstruction and the long Jim Crow era, from the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's to "values" voting in recent presidential elections. He argues that the greatest transformations in American political history, from the Civil War through the civil rights revolution and beyond, constitute an interconnected narrative in which opposing appeals to Biblical truth gave rise to often-contradictory religious and moral complexities. And he shows how this heritage remains alive today in controversies surrounding stem-cell research and abortion as well as civil rights reform. God and Race in American Politics is a panoramic history that reveals the profound role of religion in American political history and in American discourse on race and social justice.Christianity and politicsUnited StatesHistoryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistoryAfrican AmericansReligionAfrican AmericansIntellectual lifeUnited StatesRace relationsPolitical aspectsUnited StatesPolitics and government19th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government20th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government2001-2009Christianity and politicsHistory.African AmericansCivil rightsHistory.African AmericansReligion.African AmericansIntellectual life.305.800973Noll Mark A.1946-626398MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821436203321God and race in American politics3952824UNINA