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Title Slavery's long shadow : race and reconciliation in American Christianity / edited by James L. Gorman, Jeff W. Childers, and Mark W. Hamilton
Published Grand Rapids : Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages)
Contents Slavery's long shadow: race and reconciliation in American Christianity / James L. Gorman, Jeff W. Childers, and Mark W. Hamilton -- Evangelical revivalism and race relations in the early national era / James L. Gorman -- Racism and division in Christianity during the Antebellum and Reconstruction eras / Wes Crawford -- The role of religion in the lynching culture of Jim Crow America / Christopher R. Hutson -- Civil rights and the religious right: Christian roots but "one in Christ?" / Kathy Pulley -- White Christianity and resistance to civil rights for racial minorities in twenty-first-century America / Joel A. Brown -- Women, race, and unity in the Stone-Campbell Movement / Loretta Hunnicutt -- The civil rights movement and interracial unity within the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) / Lawrence A.Q. Burnley -- Racial cooperation in the Jim Crow and civil rights eras / Edward J. Robinson -- Initiatives to overcome racism in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) / D. Newell Williams and Kamilah Hall Sharp -- Resisting white supremacy / Richard T. Hughes -- Racial reconciliation as professional practice / Jerry Taylor -- Racial reconciliation workshops from the 1960s for today / Tanya Smith Brice
Summary In this book, historians and other scholars examine how the sobering historical realities of race relations and Christianity have created both unity and division within American churches from the 1790s into the twenty-first century. The book's three sections offer readers three different entry points into the conversation: major historical periods, case studies, and ways forward
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Racism -- United States -- History
Racism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Race relations.
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Racism.
Racism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
Subject United States.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Gorman, James L., editor
ISBN 9781467452571
1467452572