Social Gospel in Black and White - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ralph E. LukerSeries:Studies in ReligionTheme:Chronological Period/1851-1899, Chronological Period/1900-1919, Chronological Period/19th Century, Ethnic Orientation/African American, Religious Orientation/ChristianPublish date:3/2/1998Pages:464
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9780807847206ISBN-10:0807847208UPC:9780807847206Book Category:Religion, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Minority Studies, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.31 x 6.19 x 1.25 inchesWeight:0.758Product ID:SC58RS91CE
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.
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9780807847206ISBN-10:0807847208UPC:9780807847206Book Category:Religion, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Minority Studies, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.31 x 6.19 x 1.25 inchesWeight:0.758Product ID:SC58RS91CE
Ralph E. Luker, adjunct professor of history at Morehouse College, is author of the Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement and editor of the memoirs of Mary White Ovington.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
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