001479576 000__ 05299nam\a22007935i\4500 001479576 001__ 1479576 001479576 003__ DE-B1597 001479576 005__ 20231026035100.0 001479576 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479576 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479576 008__ 230918t20132013nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479576 020__ $$a9780814723876 001479576 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814708415.001.0001$$2doi 001479576 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)548162 001479576 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479576 0410_ $$aeng 001479576 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001479576 050_4 $$aBR555.M7$$bD87 2016 001479576 072_7 $$aREL030000$$2bisacsh 001479576 08204 $$a277.620285$$223 001479576 1001_ $$aDupont, Carolyn Renée, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001479576 24510 $$aMississippi Praying :$$bSouthern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975 /$$cCarolyn Renée Dupont. 001479576 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2013] 001479576 264_4 $$c©2013 001479576 300__ $$a1 online resource 001479576 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479576 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479576 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479576 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479576 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tIllustrations -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1. Segregation and the Religious Worlds of White Mississippians -- $$t2. Conversations about Race in the Post-War World -- $$t3. Responding to Brown -- $$t4. "A Strange and Serious Christian Heresy" -- $$t5. "Ask for the Old Paths" -- $$t6. "Born of Conviction" -- $$t7. The Jackson Church Visits -- $$t8. "Warped and Distorted Reflections" -- $$t9. Race and the Restructuring of American Religion -- $$tConclusion. A Theology on the Wrong Side of History -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001479576 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479576 520__ $$aWinner of the 2013 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize presented by the American Society of Church HistoryMississippi Praying examines the faith communities at ground-zero of the racial revolution that rocked America. This religious history of white Mississippians in the civil rights era shows how Mississippians' intense religious commitments played critical, rather than incidental, roles in their response to the movement for black equality. During the civil rights movement and since, it has perplexed many Americans that unabashedly Christian Mississippi could also unapologetically oppress its black population. Yet, as Carolyn Renée Dupont richly details, white southerners' evangelical religion gave them no conceptual tools for understanding segregation as a moral evil, and many believed that God had ordained the racial hierarchy. Challenging previous scholarship that depicts southern religious support for segregation as weak, Dupont shows how people of faith in Mississippi rejected the religious argument for black equality and actively supported the effort to thwart the civil rights movement. At the same time, faith motivated a small number of white Mississippians to challenge the methods and tactics of do-or-die segregationists. Racial turmoil profoundly destabilized Mississippi's religious communities and turned them into battlegrounds over the issue of black equality. Though Mississippi's evangelicals lost the battle to preserve segregation, they won important struggles to preserve the theology that had sustained the racial hierarchy. Ultimately, this history sheds light on the eventual rise of the religious right by elaborating the connections between the pre- and post-civil rights South. 001479576 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479576 546__ $$aIn English. 001479576 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. 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