Methodist Unification Christianity and the Politics of Race in the Jim Crow Era

Name: Methodist Unification Christianity and the Politics of Race in the Jim Crow Era
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ISBN: 9780814719909

ISBN-10: 0814719902

ISBN-13: 9780814719909

Edition: 2008

Authors: Morris L. Davis

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"Draws upon previously neglected primary sources to offer a ground-breaking analysis of the intertwined political, racial, and religious dynamics at work in the institutional merging of three American Methodist denominations in 1939. Davis boldly examines the conflicted ethics behind a dominant American religious culture's justification and preservation of racial segregation in the reformulation of its post-slavery institutional presence in American society. His work provides a much-needed, critical discussion of the racial issues that pervaded American religion and culture in the early twentieth century. Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards, Academic Dean and Associate Professor of History and…

Book details

Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 197
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Morris L. Davis is Assistant Professor, History of Christianity and Wesleyan/Methodist Studies, Drew Theological School.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Birth of a Nation, Birth of a Church



The Baltimore Meeting: Saints, Cemeteries, and Savages



Race Consciousness



The Savannah Meeting: "The Bogey of Social Equality"



The Final Three Meetings: The Problem of Missions and the Urgency of Patriots


Epilogue



List of Delegates to the Joint Commission with Biographical Notes


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index


About the Author