LEADER 04438nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910821436203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612157325 010 $a1-282-15732-9 010 $a1-4008-2973-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400829736 035 $a(CKB)2550000000018942 035 $a(EBL)457868 035 $a(OCoLC)436879054 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000164070 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11179947 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164070 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10119981 035 $a(PQKB)11615647 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43047 035 $a(DE-B1597)453666 035 $a(OCoLC)979581679 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400829736 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457868 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312580 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215732 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457868 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000018942 100 $a20080409d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGod and race in American politics $ea short history /$fMark A. Noll 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (223 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12536-8 311 $a0-691-14629-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tChapter I .The Bible, Slavery, and the "Irrepressible Conflict" --$tChapter II. The Origins of African-American Religious Agency --$tChapter III. The Churches, "Redemption," and Jim Crow --$tChapter IV. Religion and the Civil Rights Movement --$tChapter V. The Civil Rights Movement as the Fulcrum of Recent Political History --$tTheological Conclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aReligion 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. 606 $aChristianity and politics$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory 606 $aAfrican Americans$xReligion 606 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xPolitical aspects 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y2001-2009 615 0$aChristianity and politics$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xReligion. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life. 676 $a305.800973 700 $aNoll$b Mark A.$f1946-$0626398 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821436203321 996 $aGod and race in American politics$93952824 997 $aUNINA