Why did southern white evangelical Christians resist the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s? Simply put, they believed the Bible told them so. When the civil rights movement ultimately triumphed in the 1960s, it fundamentally changed southern society. But it didn't change white evangelicalism. Instead, the segregationist Christianity that fought against the civil rights movement lived on after the movement's success. Turning their attention to institutions they still controlled--churches, denominations, homes, and private high schools--white evangelicals continued to preach and…mehr
Why did southern white evangelical Christians resist the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s? Simply put, they believed the Bible told them so. When the civil rights movement ultimately triumphed in the 1960s, it fundamentally changed southern society. But it didn't change white evangelicalism. Instead, the segregationist Christianity that fought against the civil rights movement lived on after the movement's success. Turning their attention to institutions they still controlled--churches, denominations, homes, and private high schools--white evangelicals continued to preach and practice segregationist Christianity, disguising it in language of colorblindness and family protection.
J. Russell Hawkins is Professor of Humanities and History in the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgments * Introduction: "As Old as the Scriptures" * Chapter One: Not in Our Church: Congregational Backlash to Brown v. Board of Education * Chapter Two: The Bounds of Their Habitation: The Theological Foundation of Segregationist Christianity * Chapter Three: Jim Crow on Christian Campuses: The Desegregation of Furman and Wofford * Chapter Four: Embracing Colorblindness: The Methodist Merger and the Transformation of Segregationist Christianity * Chapter Five: Focusing on the Family: Private Schools and the New Shape of Segregationist Christianity * Epilogue: The Heirs of Segregationist Christianity * Index
* Acknowledgments * Introduction: "As Old as the Scriptures" * Chapter One: Not in Our Church: Congregational Backlash to Brown v. Board of Education * Chapter Two: The Bounds of Their Habitation: The Theological Foundation of Segregationist Christianity * Chapter Three: Jim Crow on Christian Campuses: The Desegregation of Furman and Wofford * Chapter Four: Embracing Colorblindness: The Methodist Merger and the Transformation of Segregationist Christianity * Chapter Five: Focusing on the Family: Private Schools and the New Shape of Segregationist Christianity * Epilogue: The Heirs of Segregationist Christianity * Index
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