ISBN:
1400880173
,
9781400880171
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 305 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Print version
DDC:
305.80097633509034
Keywords:
Katholische Kirche
;
Bischöfliche Methodistenkirche
;
Bischöfliche Methodistenkirche
;
African Americans Segregation
;
History
;
19th century
;
Louisiana
;
New Orleans
;
Segregation Religious aspects
;
Methodist Church
;
History
;
19th century
;
Segregation Religious aspects
;
Catholic Church
;
History
;
19th century
;
Segregation Religious aspects 19th century
;
Methodist Church
;
History
;
Segregation Religious aspects 19th century
;
Catholic Church
;
History
;
African Americans Segregation 19th century
;
History
;
Segregation Religious aspects 19th century
;
Catholic Church
;
History
;
Segregation Religious aspects 19th century
;
Methodist Church
;
History
;
African Americans Segregation 19th century
;
History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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RELIGION ; Christianity ; General
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African Americans ; Segregation
;
Race relations
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Segregation
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Segregation ; religiösa aspekter ; Förenta staterna
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Afro-amerikaner ; historia ; Förenta staterna ; Louisiana ; 1800-talet
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Katholische Kirche
;
Church history
;
History
;
New Orleans (La.) Race relations
;
History
;
19th century
;
New Orleans (La.) Church history
;
19th century
;
New Orleans (La.) Church history 19th century
;
New Orleans (La.) Race relations 19th century
;
History
;
New Orleans (La.) Race relations 19th century
;
History
;
New Orleans (La.) Church history 19th century
;
New Orleans, La
;
Louisiana ; New Orleans
;
Louisiana
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books.
Abstract:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. Interracial Methodism in New Orleans; CHAPTER 2. Instituting Interracial Methodism; CHAPTER 3. The Decline of Interracial Methodism; CHAPTER 4. Renegotiating Black Methodist Identity; CHAPTER 5. Interracial Catholicism in New Orleans; CHAPTER 6. The Decline of Interracial Catholicism; CHAPTER 7. Renegotiating Black Catholic Identity; EPILOGUE. Religion and Baseball in New Orleans; Abbreviations; Notes; Index.
Abstract:
Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans examines a difficult chapter in American religious history: the story of race prejudice in American Christianity. Focusing on the largest city in the late-nineteenth-century South, it explores the relationship between churches--black and white, Protestant and Catholic--and the emergence of the Jim Crow laws, statutes that created a racial caste system in the American South. The book fills a gap in the scholarship on religion and race in the crucial decades between the end of Reconstruction and the eve of the Civil Rights movement. Drawing on a range of local and personal accounts from the post-Reconstruction period, newspapers, and church records, Bennett's analysis challenges the assumption that churches fell into fixed patterns of segregation without a fight. In sacred no less than secular spheres, establishing Jim Crow constituted a long, slow, and complicated journey that extended well into the twentieth century. Churches remained a source of hope and a means of resistance against segregation, rather than a retreat from racial oppression. Especially in the decade after Reconstruction, churches offered the possibility of creating a common identity that privileged religious over racial status, a pattern that black church members hoped would transfer to a national American identity transcending racial differences. Religion thus becomes a lens to reconsider patterns for racial interaction throughout Southern society. By tracing the contours of that hopeful yet ultimately tragic journey, this book reveals the complex and mutually influential relationship between church and society in the American South, placing churches at the center of the nation's racial struggles
Note:
Includes index. - Print version record
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