The Methodist Unification: Christianity and the Politics of Race in the Jim Crow Era - Couverture rigide

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Davis, Morris L.

 
9780814719909: The Methodist Unification: Christianity and the Politics of Race in the Jim Crow Era
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0814719902 ISBN 13 : 9780814719909
Editeur : New York University Press, 2008

Synopsis

In the early part of the twentieth century, Methodists were seen by many Americans as the most powerful Christian group in the country. Ulysses S. Grant is rumored to have said that during his presidency there were three major political parties in the U.S., if you counted the Methodists.
The Methodist Unification focuses on the efforts among the Southern and Northern Methodist churches to create a unified national Methodist church, and how their plan for unification came to institutionalize racism and segregation in unprecedented ways. How did these Methodists conceive of what they had just formed as "united" when members in the church body were racially divided?
Moving the history of racial segregation among Christians beyond a simplistic narrative of racism, Morris L. Davis shows that Methodists in the early twentieth century--including high-profile African American clergy--were very much against racial equality, believing that mixing the races would lead to interracial marriages and threaten the social order of American society.
The Methodist Unification illuminates the religious culture of Methodism, Methodists' self-identification as the primary carriers of "American Christian Civilization," and their influence on the crystallization of whiteness during the Jim Crow Era as a legal category and cultural symbol.

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À propos de l?auteur

Morris L. Davis is Assistant Professor, History of Christianity and Wesleyan/Methodist Studies, Drew Theological School.

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Éditeur
New York University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814719902
ISBN 13 
9780814719909
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
197
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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