Christians and the Color Line

Race and Religion After Divided by Faith
Herausgeber: Hawkins, J. Russell; Sinitiere, Phillip Luke

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in Christians and the Color Line complicate the research findings of Emerson and Smith's Divided by Faith (2000) and explore new areas of research that have opened in the years since its publication.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP US
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9780199329502
• ISBN-10: 0199329508
• Artikelnr.: 38527878

Autorenporträt

J. Russell Hawkins (Ph.D., Rice University, 2009) is Assistant Professor of Humanities and History in the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University. His research interests cover the intersection of race, evangelical religion, and politics in modern American history. Phillip Luke Sinitiere (Ph.D., Houston, 2009) is Associate Professor of History at the College of Biblical Studies, a multiethnic school located in Houston's culturally rich Mahatma Gandhi District. A scholar of American religion and culture, he is co-author of Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace (2009). With Amy Helene Kirschke he edited 100 Years of Crisis: The NAACP's Magazine in American History and Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Foreword
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One
"Neoevangelicalism and the Problem of Race in America"
Chapter Two
"Healing the Mystical Body: Catholic Attempts to Overcome the Racial
Divide in Chicago, 1930-1960"
Chapter Three
"'Glimmers of Hope': Progressive Evangelical Leaders and Racism,
1965-2000"
Chapter Four
"'Buttcheek to Buttcheek in the Pew': Interracial Relationalism at a
Mennonite Congregation, 1957-2010"
Chapter Five
"Still Divided by Faith? Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race
in America, 1977-2010"
Chapter Six
"Worshipping to Stay the Same: Avoiding the Local to Maintain Solidarity"
Chapter Seven
"Beyond Body Counts: Sex, Individualism, and the Segregated Shape
of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism"
Chapter Eight
"Color-Conscious Structure-Blind Assimilation: How Asian-Americans
can Unintentionally Maintain the Racial Divide"
Chapter Nine
"Knotted Together: Identity and Community in a Multiracial Church"
Chapter Ten
"Much Ado About Nothing? Rethinking the Efficacy of Multiracial
Churches for Racial Reconciliation"
Theological Afterword
"The Call to Blackness in American Christianity"