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Journal Article
Reconstruction, Religion, Politics, and Race
2024
Overview
Historians of religion and Reconstruction, particularly those who have centered African Americans in the post-emancipation South, have sharpened and enriched interpretations of the Reconstruction period by demonstrating churches centrality to the larger struggles of the period. Since these scholars have focused largely on religious institutions in the aftermath of the end of slavery, they have necessarily examined the issues of racism, interracial interactions, and racial identity formation. Scholarship on religion and race after emancipation has centered religious institutions in ways that have allowed the important theme of racial power to come to the forefront. [...]of Days (2016), Matthew Harper explores how Black Protestant Christians in North Carolina used their eschatological thoughts about the end times to interpret their political landscape and opportunities after emancipation.4 While the book focuses primarily on ideas, its key intervention lies in carefully examining biblical interpretation as a source of political inspiration, thereby bringing greater specificity to how Black religion influenced post-emancipation politics. [...]given that these organizations and opportunities long predated Reconstruction, the skills and political participation practices freedpeople demonstrated were longstanding. [...]these more recent examinations of religious spaces as political grounds build on earlier works that centered denominational missionary organizations' efforts to help freedpeople after emancipation.
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University of North Carolina Press,The University of North Carolina Press
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