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Burning Faith - Church Arson in the American South (Paperback, New edition)
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Burning Faith - Church Arson in the American South (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Southern Dissent
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In the 1990s, churches across the southeastern United States were
targeted and set ablaze. These arsonists predominately targeted
African American congregations and captured the attention of the
media nationwide. Using oral histories, newspaper accounts, and
governmental reports, Christopher Strain gives a chronological
account of the series of church fires. Burning Faith considers the
various forces at work, including government responses, civil
rights groups, religious forces, and media coverage, in providing a
thorough, comprehensive analysis of the events and their fallout.
Arguing that these church fires symbolize the breakdown of communal
bonds in the nation, Strain appeals for the revitalization of
united Americans and the return to a sense of community. Combining
scholarly sophistication with popular readability, Strain has
produced one of the first histories of the last decade and
demonstrates that the increasing fragmentation of community in
America runs deeper than race relations or prejudice. A volume in
the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall
M. Miller
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