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 seriously 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.
#1811039 in Books imusti 2015-05-26Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.25 x 1.19 x 6.12l; .0 #File Name: 0300190980448 pagesYale University Press
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