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A 2013 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. How is it that in America
the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the
atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of
civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and
Paul Harvey weave a tapestry of American dreams and visions - from
witch hunts to web pages, Harlem to Hollywood, slave cabins to
South Park, Mormon revelations to Indian reservations - to show how
Americans remade the Son of God visually time and again into a
sacred symbol of their greatest aspirations, deepest terrors, and
mightiest strivings for racial power and justice. The Color of
Christ uncovers how, in a country founded by Puritans who destroyed
depictions of Jesus, Americans came to believe in the whiteness of
Christ. Some envisioned a white Christ who would sanctify the
exploitation of Native Americans and African Americans and bless
imperial expansion. Many others gazed at a messiah, not necessarily
white, who was willing and able to confront white supremacy. The
color of Christ still symbolizes America's most combustible
divisions, revealing the power and malleability of race and
religion from colonial times to the presidency of Barack Obama.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is arguably
the most important written document of the civil rights protest era
and a widely read modern literary classic. Personally addressed to
eight white Birmingham clergy who sought to avoid violence by
publicly discouraging King's civil rights demonstrations in
Birmingham, the nationally published "Letter" captured the essence
of the struggle for racial equality and provided a blistering
critique of the gradualist approach to racial justice. It soon
became part of American folklore, and the image of King penning his
epistle from a prison cell remains among the most moving of the
era. Yet, as S. Jonathan Bass explains in the first comprehensive
history of King's "Letter," this image and the piece's literary
appeal conceal a much more complex tale. This updated edition of
Blessed Are the Peacemakers includes a new foreword by Paul Harvey,
a new afterword by James C. Cobb, and a new epilogue by the author.
Together, and separately, black and white Baptists created
different but intertwined cultures that profoundly shaped the
South. Adopting a biracial and bicultural focus, Paul Harvey works
to redefine southern religious history, and by extension southern
culture, as the product of such interaction--the result of whites
and blacks having drawn from and influenced each other even while
remaining separate and distinct. Harvey explores the parallels and
divergences of black and white religious institutions as manifested
through differences in worship styles, sacred music, and political
agendas. He examines the relationship of broad social phenomena
like progressivism and modernization to the development of southern
religion, focusing on the clash between rural southern folk
religious expression and models of spirituality drawn from northern
Victorian standards. In tracing the growth of Baptist churches from
small outposts of radically democratic plain-folk religion in the
mid-eighteenth century to conservative and culturally dominant
institutions in the twentieth century, Harvey explores one of the
most impressive evolutions of American religious and cultural
history. |Together, and separately, black and white Baptists
created different but intertwined cultures that profoundly shaped
the South. Adopting a biracial and bicultural focus, Paul Harvey
works to redefine southern religious history, and by extension
southern culture, as the product of such interaction--the result of
whites and blacks having drawn from and influenced each other even
while remaining separate and distinct. In tracing the growth of
Baptist churches from small outposts of radically democratic
plain-folk religion in the mid-18th century to conservative and
culturally dominant institutions in the 20th century, Harvey
explores one of the most impressive evolutions of American
religious and cultural history.
Designed to serve as an introduction to American religion, this
volume is distinctive in its approach: instead of following a
traditional narrative, the book is arranged thematically. Eleven
chapters by top scholars present, in carefully organized and
accessible fashion, topics and perspectives fundamental to the
understanding of religion in America. Some of the chapters treat
aspects of faith typical to most religious groups, such as
theology, proselytization, supernaturalism, and cosmology. Others
deal with race, ethnicity, gender, the state, economy, science,
diversity, and regionalism - facets of American culture that often
interact with religion. Each topical essay is structured
chronologically, divided into sections on pre-colonial, colonial,
revolutionary and early republican, antebellum, postbellum and late
nineteenth-century, early twentieth-century, and modern America.
One can study the extended history of a certain theme, or read
""across"" the book for a study of all the themes during a specific
period in history. This book's new approach offers a rich analysis
of the genuine complexity of American religious life. With a
helpful glossary of basic religious terms, movements, people, and
groups, this book will become an essential tool for students and
teachers of religion.
The history of race and religion in the American South is infused
with tragedy, survival, and water--from St. Augustine on the shores
of Florida's Atlantic Coast to the swampy mire of Jamestown to the
floodwaters that nearly destroyed New Orleans. Determination,
resistance, survival, even transcendence, shape the story of race
and southern Christianities. In Christianity and Race in the
American South, Paul Harvey gives us a narrative history of the
South as it integrates into the story of religious history,
fundamentally transforming our understanding of the importance of
American Christianity and religious identity. Harvey chronicles the
diversity and complexity in the intertwined histories of race and
religion in the South, dating back to the first days of European
settlement. He presents a history rife with strange alliances,
unlikely parallels, and far too many tragedies, along the way
illustrating that ideas about the role of churches in the South
were critically shaped by conflicts over slavery and race that
defined southern life more broadly. Race, violence, religion, and
southern identity remain a volatile brew, and this book is the
persuasive historical examination that is essential to making sense
of it.
The history of race and religion in the American South is infused
with tragedy, survival, and water from St. Augustine on the shores
of Florida's Atlantic Coast to the swampy mire of Jamestown to the
floodwaters that nearly destroyed New Orleans. Determination,
resistance, survival, even transcendence, shape the story of race
and southern Christianities. In Christianity and Race in the
American South, Paul Harvey gives us a narrative history of the
South as it integrates into the story of religious history,
fundamentally transforming our understanding of the importance of
American Christianity and religious identity. Harvey chronicles the
diversity and complexity in the intertwined histories of race and
religion in the South, dating back to the first days of European
settlement. He presents a history rife with strange alliances,
unlikely parallels, and far too many tragedies, along the way
illustrating that ideas about the role of churches in the South
were critically shaped by conflicts over slavery and race that
defined southern life more broadly. Race, violence, religion, and
southern identity remain a volatile brew, and this book is the
persuasive historical examination that is essential to making sense
of it.
Of late, religion seems to be everywhere, suffusing U.S.
politics and popular culture and acting as both a unifying and a
divisive force. This collection of manifestos, Supreme Court
decisions, congressional testimonies, speeches, articles, book
excerpts, pastoral letters, interviews, song lyrics, memoirs, and
poems reflects the vitality, diversity, and changing nature of
religious belief and practice in American public and private life
over the last half century. Encompassing a range of perspectives,
this book illustrates the ways in which individuals from all along
the religious and political spectrum have engaged religion and
viewed it as a crucial aspect of society.
The anthology begins with documents that reflect the close
relationship of religion, especially mainline Protestantism, to
essential ideas undergirding Cold War America. Covering both the
center and the margins of American religious life, this volume
devotes extended attention to how issues of politics, race, gender,
and sexuality have influenced the religious mainstream. A series of
documents reflects the role of religion and theology in the civil
rights, feminist, and gay rights movements as well as in
conservative responses. Issues regarding religion and contemporary
American culture are explored in documents about the rise of the
evangelical movement and the religious right; the impact of "new"
(post-1965) immigrant communities on the religious landscape; the
popularity of alternative, New Age, and non-Western beliefs; and
the relationship between religion and popular culture.
The editors conclude with selections exploring major themes of
American religious life at the millennium, including both
conservative and New Age millennialism, as well as excerpts that
speculate on the future of religion in the United States.
The documents are grouped by theme into nine chapters and
arranged chronologically therein. Each chapter features an
extensive introduction providing context for and analysis of the
critical issues raised by the primary sources.
In a sweeping analysis of religion in the post - Civil War and
twentieth-century South, ""Freedom's Coming"" puts race and culture
at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both
priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology sanctified
dominant political and social hierarchies, evangelical belief and
practice subtly undermined them. Harvey explains how black and
white religious folk within and outside of mainstream religious
groups formed a southern ""evangelical counterculture"" of
Christian interracialism that challenged the theologically grounded
racism pervasive among white southerners and ultimately helped to
end Jim Crow in the South.
Contributing Authors Include David Pressman, Felix Haurowitz,
Jerrold M. Yos And Many Others. A Symposium Sponsored By The Office
Of Naval Research And Arranged By The American Institute Of
Biological Science Held In Washington D. C., October 28-29, 1955.
This is the leading work on forensic medicine and the law in the
UK. Written by a team of leading legal practitioners, pathologists
and other experts, this Seventh Edition has been fully revised to
bring it up to date with the latest legal, medical and scientific
developments. It is the only book directed at both the legal
practitioner and the expert medical witness. It provides unique
commentary on the law in all three UK jurisdictions: England and
Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. It guides experts on their
role and duties to the courts and highlights areas of current
scientific and legal controversy with additional reference sources.
In addition to two new chapters on forensic psychiatry and forensic
science, the Seventh Edition includes updates and new material on:
- Introduction to medicine, the systems of the body and autopsy
procedure - Forensic medicine covering assaults, firearms, head
injuries, road traffic collisions, falls, asphyxia, drowning,
hypothermia, and heat and electricity - Sexual offences, deaths in
detention, forensic odontology and toxicology - Guidance for the
expert medical witness on giving evidence in the UK courts,
covering the UK’s criminal justice systems, coroners’ courts
and fatal accident inquiries This title is included in Bloomsbury
Professional's Personal Injury Law online service.
A civilisation confronted by forces it cannot control. Could the
Roman empire, built over a thousand years, be swept from
history?..... It was unthinkable, yet its greatest challenge was
about to begin. This is a story from the twilight years of Imperial
rule. The future of the Mediterranean world would be settled. Who
would be victorious? Who would survive? A young Gothic warrior, a
Roman noblewoman and her Legionary Commander brother are thrown
together, by the storm of events that threatens everything they
held dear. The first book of the twilight of Rome trilogy offers a
glimpse of those desperate times. When the old certainties were
lost, a new era dawned and the struggle to survive, would be too
much for some.
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