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Mississippi praying : southern White evangelicals and the civil rights movement, 1945-1975
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Mississippi praying : southern White evangelicals and the civil rights movement, 1945-1975 / Carolyn Renée Dupont.
ISBN
9780814708415 (alk. paper)
0814708412 (alk. paper)
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Physical Description
xiii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 26, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : history, white religion, and the civil rights movement
Segregation and the religious worlds of white Mississippians
Conversations about race in the post-war world
Responding to Brown : the recalcitrant parish
"A strange and serious Christian heresy" : massive resistance and the religious defense of segregation
"Ask for the old paths" : Mississippi's Southern Baptists and segregation
"Born of conviction" : the travail of Mississippi Methodism
The Jackson church visits : "a good quarter-time church with a bird dog and shot gun"
"Warped and distorted reflections" : Mississippi and the North
Race and restructuring of American religion
Conclusion : a theology on the wrong side of history.
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