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God and race in american politics

Mark A. Noll

2008,2010

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: 19th century / 2001 / 2001-2009 / 20th century / Abolitionism / African Americans / African Americans -- Civil rights -- History / African Americans -- Intellectual life / African Americans -- Religion / African Methodist Episcopal Church / African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68) / African-American self-determination / Aftermath of World War I / America in the King Years / American Anti-Slavery Society / Anti-Americanism / Anti-clericalism / Anti-communism / Apocalypticism / Baptists / Black church / Black nationalism / Black separatism / Brown v. Board of Education / Calvinism / Cantwell v. Connecticut / Christian Realism / Christian Reconstructionism / Christian theology / Christianity / Christianity and politics / Christianity and politics -- United States -- History / Civil religion / Civil rights / Communalism (political philosophy) / Conservative Judaism / Culture war / Dixiecrat / Electoral college / Electoral College (United States) / Evangelical Lutheran Church in America / Everson v. Board of Education / Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy / HISTORY / HISTORY / United States / General / Holiness movement / Human Life Amendment / Intellectual life / Jacksonian democracy / Jim Crow laws / John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry / Judeo-Christian / Mainline Protestant / Manichaeism / Methodism / Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party / National Association for the Advancement of Colored People / National Policy / New Christian / New Deal coalition / On Religion / Plessy v. Ferguson / Political aspects / Political demography / Political geography / Political history / Political Ideologies / Political philosophy / Political revolution / POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General / Politics / Politics and government / Politics of the United States / Pope Gregory XVI / Populism / Presbyterian Church in the United States / Primitive Baptists / Protestantism / Puritans / Race relations / Racial integration / Racial segregation / Racism / Radical Republican / Radicalism (historical) / Religion / RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State / Religious test / United States / United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century / United States -- Politics and government -- 2001 / United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century / United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects
• ISBN: 0691125368, 9780691146294, 9781400829736, 1400829739, 0691146292, 9780691125367