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God and Race in American Politics
Mark A. Noll
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Beschreibung
The combustible mix of race and religion in American history
Religion 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 1950s and 1960s 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.
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Abolitionism, America in the King Years, Radical Republican, Populism, On Religion, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Puritans, Baptists, Primitive Baptists, Methodism, Anti-communism, Religious test, Brown v. Board of Education, Everson v. Board of Education, American Anti-Slavery Society, Political science, Electoral college, New Deal coalition, Anti-clericalism, Anti-Americanism, Mainline Protestant, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Pope Gregory XVI, Jacksonian democracy, Black church, Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy, Communalism (political philosophy), New Christian, African Americans, Political history, Christian theology, Politics of the United States, Manichaeism, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Black nationalism, Black separatism, Plessy v. Ferguson, African-American self-determination, Conservative Judaism, Judeo-Christian, Political revolution, Holiness movement, Christianity, National Policy, Aftermath of World War I, Political geography, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Presbyterian Church in the United States, Religion, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Dixiecrat, Racism, Apocalypticism, Christian Realism, Political demography, Culture war, Human Life Amendment, Racial integration, Political philosophy, Protestantism, African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68), Jim Crow laws, Calvinism, Civil religion, Radicalism (historical), Cantwell v. Connecticut, Electoral College (United States), Racial segregation, Politics, Christian Reconstructionism