Religion has been a powerful political force throughout American
history. When race enters the mix the results have been some of our
greatest triumphs as a nation--and some of our most shameful
failures. In this important book, Mark Noll, one of the most
influential historians of American religion writing today, traces
the explosive political effects of the religious intermingling with
race.
Noll demonstrates how supporters and opponents of slavery and
segregation drew equally on the Bible to justify the morality of
their positions. He shows how a common evangelical heritage
supported Jim Crow discrimination and contributed powerfully to the
black theology of liberation preached by Martin Luther King Jr. In
probing such connections, Noll takes readers from the 1830 slave
revolt of Nat Turner through Reconstruction and the long Jim Crow
era, from the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s to
"values" voting in recent presidential elections. He argues that
the greatest transformations in American political history, from
the Civil War through the civil rights revolution and beyond,
constitute an interconnected narrative in which opposing appeals to
Biblical truth gave rise to often-contradictory religious and moral
complexities. And he shows how this heritage remains alive today in
controversies surrounding stem-cell research and abortion as well
as civil rights reform.
"God and Race in American Politics" is a panoramic history that
reveals the profound role of religion in American political history
and in American discourse on race and social justice.
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