The Bible told them so [electronic resource] : how Southern Evangelicals fought to preserve white supremacy

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서명/저자사항	The Bible told them so [electronic resource]: how Southern Evangelicals fought to preserve white supremacy / J. Russell Hawkins.
개인저자	Hawkins, J. Russell, author.
발행사항	New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2021]
형태사항	1 online resource
ISBN	9780197571392 0197571395 0197571077 9780197571071
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Introduction: "As old as the Scriptures..." -- Not in our church : congregational backlash to Brown v. Board of Education -- The Bible told them so : the theological foundation of segregationist Christianity -- Jim Crow on Christian campuses : the desegregation of Furman and Wofford -- Natural affinities, mutual appreciation, voluntary consent : the Methodist merger and the transformation of segregationist Christianity -- Focusing on the family : private schools and the new shape of segregationist Christianity -- Epilogue: the heirs of segregationist Christianity.
요약	"The Bible Told Them So explains why southern white evangelical Christians in South Carolina resisted the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Simply put, they believed the Bible told them so. Interpreting the Bible in such a way, these white Christians entered the battle against the civil rights movement certain that God was on their side. Ultimately, the civil rights movement triumphed in the 1960s and, with its success, fundamentally transformed American society. But such a victory did little to change southern white evangelicals' theological commitment to segregation. Rather than abandoning their segregationist theology in the second half of the 1960s, white evangelicals turned their focus on institutions they still controlled-churches, homes, denominations, and private colleges and secondary schools-and fought on. Despite suffering defeat in the public sphere, white evangelicals continued to battle for their own institutions, preaching and practicing a segregationist Christianity they continued to believe reflected God's will. Increasingly caught in the tension between their sincere beliefs that God desired segregation and their reticence to vocalize such ideas for fear of seeming bigoted or intolerant by the late 1960s, southern white evangelicals eventually embraced rhetoric of colorblindness and protection of the family as measures to maintain both segregation and respectable social standing. Such a strategy set southern white evangelicals on an alternative path for race relations in the decades ahead"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
주제명(지명)	South Carolina --Church history --20th century. South Carolina --Race relations. South Carolina. --fast
일반주제명	Segregation --Religious aspects --Christianity. Segregation --South Carolina --History --20th century. Christians, White --South Carolina --History. White supremacy movements --Religious aspects --Christianity. Baptists --South Carolina. Methodists --South Carolina. Racism --Religious aspects --Christianity. Baptists. Christians, White. Methodists. Race relations. Racism --Religious aspects --Christianity. Segregation. Segregation --Religious aspects --Christianity. White supremacy movements --Religious aspects --Christianity.
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