White Evangelical Racism
The Politics of Morality in America
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Format: Book
Description: 164 pages ; 20 cm.
"The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power."-- Publisher, inside front flap of dust jacket
Series: Ferris and Ferris
Contents:
Introduction, Evangelical Racism: A Feature, Not a Bug -- Racist Foundations of Evangelicalism in the Nineteenth Century -- Saving the Nation, Fervor, Fear, and Challenges to Jim Crow -- Whitewashing Racism and the Rise of the Religious Right -- How Firm a Foundation, a Twenty-First-Century Precipice Appears -- Conclusion, Whom Will You Serve?
Subjects:
Evangelicalism -- United States -- History.
Racism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Christians, White -- United States -- History.
Religion and politics -- United States -- History.
Racism -- United States -- History.
United States -- Church history.
United States -- Race relations.
Evangelicalism -- United States -- History.
Racism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Christians, White -- United States -- History.
Religion and politics -- United States -- History.
Racism -- United States -- History.
United States -- Church history.
United States -- Race relations.
ISBN:
9781469661179
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"A Ferris and Ferris book."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.