The Social Gospel in Black and White - American Racial Reform, 1885-1912 (Paperback, New edition)

In a major revision of accepted wisdom, this book, originally published by UNC Press in 1991, demonstrates that American social Christianity played an important role in racial reform during the period between Emancipation and the civil rights movement. As organizations created by the heirs of antislavery sentiment foundered in the mid-1890s, Ralph Luker argues, a new generation of black and white reformers--many of them representatives of American social Christianity--explored a variety of solutions to the problem of racial conflict. Some of them helped to organize the Federal Council of Churches in 1909, while others returned to abolitionist and home missionary strategies in organizing the NAACP in 1910 and the National Urban League in 1911. A half century later, such organizations formed the institutional core of America's civil rights movement. Luker also shows that the black prophets of social Christianity who espoused theological personalism created an influential tradition that eventually produced Martin Luther King Jr. |Examines the impact of the new wave of black and white reformers, many of them social Christians, who struggled for solutions to America's racial problems between 1885 and 1912.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Religion
Release date:	March 1998
First published:	March 1998
Authors:	Ralph E. Luker
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	464
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8078-4720-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > General Books > Christianity Promotions
LSN:	0-8078-4720-8
Barcode:	9780807847206

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