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005			20251028093411.0
008			130423s2013 nyua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2013009417
035			_a(Sirsi) i9780814708415
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019			_a844725995 _a935938849
020			_a9780814708415 _q(alk. paper)
020			_a0814708412 _q(alk. paper)
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020			_a1479823511 _q(paperback)
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050	0	0	_aBR 555.M7 _bD87 2013
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100	1		_aDupont, Carolyn Ren�ee.
245	1	0	_aMississippi praying : _bsouthern white evangelicals and the Civil Rights movement, 1945-1975 / _cCarolyn Ren�ee Dupont.
264		1	_aNew York : _bNYU Press, _c2013.
300			_axii, 290 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : history, white religion, and the civil rights movement -- Segregation and the religious worlds of white Mississippians -- Conversations about race in the post-war world -- Responding to Brown : the recalcitrant parish -- "A strange and serious Christian heresy" : massive resistance and the religious defense of segregation -- "Ask for the old paths" : Mississippi's Southern Baptists and segregation -- "Born of conviction" : the travail of Mississippi Methodism -- The Jackson church visits : "a good quarter-time church with a bird dog and shot gun" -- "Warped and distorted reflections" : Mississippi and the North -- Race and restructuring of American religion -- Conclusion : a theology on the wrong side of history.
520			_aMississippi Praying examines the faith communities at ground-zero of the racial revolution that rocked America. This religious history of white Mississippians in the civil rights era shows how Mississippian's intense religious commitments played critical, rather than incidental, roles in their response to the movement for black equality. During the civil rights movement and since, it has perplexed many Americans that unabashedly Christian Mississippi could also unapologetically oppress its black population. Yet, as Carolyn Renee Dupont richly details, white southerners' evangelical religion gave them no conceptual tools for understanding segregation as a moral evil, and many believed that God had ordained the racial hierarchy. Challenging previous scholarship that depicts southern religious support for segregation as weak, Dupont shows how people of faith in Mississippi rejected the religious argument for black equality and actively supported the effort to thwart the civil rights movement. At the same time, faith motivated a small number of white Mississippians to challenge the methods and tactics of do-or-die segregationists. Racial turmoil profoundly destabilized Mississippi's religious communities and turned them into battlegrounds over the issue of black equality. Though Mississippi's evangelicals lost the battle to preserve segregation, they won important struggles to preserve the theology that had sustained the racial hierarchy. Ultimately, this history sheds light on the eventual rise of the religious right by elaborating the connections between the pre- and post-civil rights South. -- Publisher's website.
651		0	_aMississippi _xChurch history _y20th century.
650		0	_aEvangelicalism _zMississippi _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aCivil rights movements _zMississippi _xHistory _y20th century.
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