ISBN:
9780300205602
,
9780300230598
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 647 Seiten, 6 ungezählte Seiten
DDC:
230.089/96073
Keywords:
Du Bois, W. E. B
;
Black theology History
;
African Americans Civil rights 20th century
;
History
;
Civil rights movements History 20th century
;
African Americans Religious life 20th century
;
History
;
Christian sociology History 20th century
;
Social gospel History 20th century
;
Theology History 20th century
;
Du Bois, William E. B. 1868-1963
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USA
;
Schwarze
;
Social Gospel
;
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a "new abolition" would require in American society. It became an important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of excluded voices and providing the intellectual underpinnings of the civil rights movement. This tradition has been egregiously overlooked, despite its immense legacy. In this groundbreaking work, Gary Dorrien describes the early history of the black social gospel from its nineteenth-century founding to its close association in the twentieth century with W.E.B. Du Bois. He offers a new perspective on modern Christianity and the civil rights era by delineating the tradition of social justice theology and activism that led to Martin Luther King Jr."--Publisher's description
Abstract:
The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a "new abolition" would require in American society. It became an important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of excluded voices and providing the intellectual underpinnings of the civil rights movement. This tradition has been egregiously overlooked, despite its immense legacy. In this groundbreaking work, Gary Dorrien describes the early history of the black social gospel from its nineteenth-century founding to its close association in the twentieth century with W. E. B. Du Bois. He offers a new perspective on modern Christianity and the civil rights era by delineating the tradition of social justice theology and activism that led to Martin Luther King Jr
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