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This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of
the Civil Rights Movement examines a group of black Christian
intellectuals and activists who looked abroad, even to other
religious traditions, for ideas and practices that could transform
American democracy. From the 1930s to the 1950s, this core group
drew lessons from independence movements around for the world for
an American campaign that would be part of a global network of
resistance to colonialism and white supremacy. This book argues
that their religious perspectives and methods of moral reasoning
developed a theological blueprint for what Bayard Rustin called the
"classical phase" of the Civil Rights Movement. Existing
scholarship on the book's main figures, including Howard Thurman,
Benjamin Mays, and William Stuart Nelson, pioneers of African
American Christian nonviolence James Farmer, Pauli Murray, and
Bayard Rustin, and YWCA leaders Juliette Derricotte and Sue Bailey
Thurman, focuses on individuals and misses important streams of
influence and creative collaborations. This book traces fertile
intersections of worldwide resistance movements, explores American
racial politics and interreligious exchanges that crossed literal
borders and disciplinary boundaries, enriches our understanding of
the international roots of the Civil Rights Movement, and offers
lessons on the role of religion in justice movements.
Religion and Politics in America's Borderlands brings together
leading academic specialists on immigration and the borderlands, as
well as nationally recognized grassroots activists, who reflect on
their varied experiences of living, working, and teaching on the
US-Mexico border and in the borderlands. These authors demonstrate
the groundbreaking claim that the borderlands are not only a
location to think about religiously, but they're also a place that
reshapes religious thinking. In this pioneering book, scholars and
activists engage with Scripture, theology, history, church
practices, and personal experiences to offer in-depth analyses of
how the borderlands confront conventional interpretations of
Christianity.
Pauli Murray (1910-1985) was a poet, lawyer, activist, and priest,
as well as a significant figure in the civil rights and women's
movements. Throughout her careers and activism, Murray espoused
faith in an American democracy that is partially present and yet to
come.
In the 1940s Murray was in the vanguard of black activists to use
nonviolent direct action. A decade before the Montgomery bus
boycott, Murray organized sit-ins of segregated restaurants in
Washington DC and was arrested for sitting in the front section of
a bus in Virginia. Murray pioneered the category Jane Crow to
describe discrimination she experienced as a result of racism and
sexism. She used Jane Crow in the 1960s to expand equal protection
provisions for African American women. A co-founder of the National
Organization of Women, Murray insisted on the interrelation of all
human rights. Her professional and personal relationships included
major figures in the ongoing struggle for civil rights for all
Americans, including Thurgood Marshall and Eleanor Roosevelt.
In seminary in the 1970s, Murray developed a black feminist
critique of emerging black male and white feminist theologies.
After becoming the first African American woman Episcopal priest in
1977, Murray emphasized the particularity of African American
women's experiences, while proclaiming a universal message of
salvation.
The Dream Is Freedom examines Murray's substantial body of
published writings as well personal letters, journals, and
unpublished manuscripts. Azaransky traces the development of
Murray's thought over fifty years, ranging from Murray's
theologically rich democratic criticism of the 1930s to her
democratically inflected sermons of the 1980s. Pauli Murray was an
innovative democratic thinker, who addressed how Americans can
recognize differences, signaled the role of history and memory in
shaping democratic character, and called for strategic coalition
building to make more justice available for more Americans.
The lived theology movement is built on the work of an emerging
generation of theologians and scholars who pursue research,
teaching, and writing as a form of public discipleship, motivated
by the conviction that theology can enhance lived experience. This
volume-based on a two-year collaboration with the Project on Lived
Theology at the University of Virginia-offers a series of
illustrations and styles of lived theology, in conversation with
other major approaches to the religious interpretation of embodied
life. Lived theology begins with a modest proposal: How might
theological writing, research, and teaching be re-imagined to
engage with lived experience, while still contributing to academic
scholarship? The contributors consider this question in a variety
of contexts, including towns in Mississippi struggling with
histories of racist violence; a homeless shelter in Atlanta;
students volunteering with faith based organizations in Columbus,
Ohio; churches in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and a college
classroom in the MidWest. Answers to, and explorations of this
question form the narrative framework of this book. Behind this
question is the theological conviction that within the lived
experience of faith communities lies a wealth of insight on themes
that have long occupied the attention of scholars-morality,
justice, grace, reconciliation, and redemption.
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