The new abolition : W.E.B. Du Bois and the black social gospel

• Tác giả: Gary J Dorrien
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 0300230591
• ISBN-13: 978-0300205602
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 230.08996073 Christianity Christian theology
• Mô tả vật lý: xiv, 647 pages ; , 25 cm
• Bộ sưu tập: Tôn giáo
• ID: 348822
• Chủ đề: 1. African Americans--Civil rights--20th century; 2. African Americans--Religious life--20th century; 3. Black theology--History; 4. Christian sociology--History--20th century--United States; 5. Civil rights movements--History--20th century--United States; 6. Social gospel--History--20th century--United States; 7. Theology--History--20th century

Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-611) and index.

Tóm tắt

"The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a "new abolition" would require in American society. It became an important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of excluded voices and providing the intellectual underpinnings of the civil rights movement. This tradition has been egregiously overlooked, despite its immense legacy. In this groundbreaking work, Gary Dorrien describes the early history of the black social gospel from its nineteenth-century founding to its close association in the twentieth century with W.E.B. Du Bois. He offers a new perspective on modern Christianity and the civil rights era by delineating the tradition of social justice theology and activism that led to Martin Luther King Jr."--Publisher's description.