God and Race in American Politics : : A Short History / / Mark A. Noll.

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 w...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2008
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 3 line illus. 8 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter I .The Bible, Slavery, and the "Irrepressible Conflict"
  • Chapter II. The Origins of African-American Religious Agency
  • Chapter III. The Churches, "Redemption," and Jim Crow
  • Chapter IV. Religion and the Civil Rights Movement
  • Chapter V. The Civil Rights Movement as the Fulcrum of Recent Political History
  • Theological Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index