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Doctrine and Race - African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars (Paperback)
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Doctrine and Race - African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars (Paperback)
Series: Religion & American Culture
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Doctrine and Race examines the history of African American Baptists
and Methodists of the early twentieth century and their struggle
for equality in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism. By
presenting African American Protestantism in the context of white
Protestant fundamentalism, Doctrine and Race: African American
Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars demonstrates that
African American Protestants were acutely aware of the manner in
which white Christianity operated and how they could use that
knowledge to justify social change. Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews's
study scrutinizes how white fundamentalists wrote blacks out of
their definition of fundamentalism and how blacks constructed a
definition of Christianity that had, at its core, an intrinsic
belief in racial equality. In doing so, this volume challenges the
prevailing scholarly argument that fundamentalism was either a
doctrinal debate or an antimodernist force. Instead, it was a
constantly shifting set of priorities for different groups at
different times. A number of African American theologians and
clergy identified with many of the doctrinal tenets of the
fundamentalism of their white counterparts, but African Americans
were excluded from full fellowship with the fundamentalists because
of their race. Moreover, these scholars and pastors did not limit
themselves to traditional evangelical doctrine but embraced
progressive theological concepts, such as the Social Gospel, to
help them achieve racial equality. Nonetheless, they identified
other forward-looking theological views, such as modernism, as
threats to "true" Christianity. Mathews demonstrates that, although
traditional portraits of "the black church" have provided the
illusion of a singular unified organization, black evangelical
leaders debated passionately among themselves as they sought to
preserve select aspects of the culture around them while rejecting
others. The picture that emerges from this research creates a
richer, more profound understanding of African American
denominations as they struggled to contend with a white American
society that saw them as inferior. Doctrine and Race melds American
religious history and race studies in innovative and compelling
ways, highlighting the remarkable and rich complexity that attended
to the development of African American Protestant movements.
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