God and Race in American Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God and Race in American Politics write by Mark A. Noll. This book was released on 2010-04-04. God and Race in American Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A critical analysis of the explosive political effects of the religious intermingling with race reveals the profound role of religion in American political history and in the American discourse on race and social justice.
God and Mammon
God and Mammon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God and Mammon write by Mark A. Noll. This book was released on 2002. God and Mammon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays offers a close look at the connections between American Protestants and money in the Antebellum period. They provide essential background to an issue that continues to generate controversy in the Protestant community today.
Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics
Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics write by R. Khari Brown. This book was released on 2021-09-15. Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the intersection of race, political sermons, and social justice. Religious leaders and congregants who discuss and encourage others to do social justice embrace a form of civil religion that falls close to the covenantal wing of American civil religious thought. Clergy and members who share this theological outlook frame the nation as being exceptional in God’s sight. They also emphasize that the nation’s special relationship with the Creator is contingent on the nation working toward providing opportunities for socioeconomic well-being, freedom, and creative pursuits. God’s covenant, thus, requires inclusion of people who may have different life experiences but who, nonetheless, are equally valued by God and worthy of dignity. Adherents to such a civil religious worldview would believe it right to care for and be in solidarity with the poor and powerless, even if they are undocumented immigrants, people living in non-democratic and non-capitalist nations, or members of racial or cultural out-groups. Relying on 44 national and regional surveys conducted between 1941 and 2019, Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics explores how racial experiences impact the degree to which religion informs social justice attitudes and political behavior. This is the most comprehensive set of analyses of publicly available survey data on this topic.
The Color of Christ
The Color of Christ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Color of Christ write by Edward J. Blum. This book was released on 2012-09-21. The Color of Christ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
White Evangelical Racism
White Evangelical Racism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook White Evangelical Racism write by Anthea Butler. This book was released on 2021-02-23. White Evangelical Racism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power. Butler reveals how evangelical racism, propelled by the benefits of whiteness, has since the nation's founding played a provocative role in severely fracturing the electorate. During the buildup to the Civil War, white evangelicals used scripture to defend slavery and nurture the Confederacy. During Reconstruction, they used it to deny the vote to newly emancipated blacks. In the twentieth century, they sided with segregationists in avidly opposing movements for racial equality and civil rights. Most recently, evangelicals supported the Tea Party, a Muslim ban, and border policies allowing family separation. White evangelicals today, cloaked in a vision of Christian patriarchy and nationhood, form a staunch voting bloc in support of white leadership. Evangelicalism's racial history festers, splits America, and needs a reckoning now.
