Breaking white supremacy
Subtitle: Martin Luther King Jr. and the black social gospel
By: Gary Dorrien
Contributors: Dorrien, Gary J.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 610
ISBN-13: 9780300205619
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Religion; Civil rights movements; Christian sociology; Civil rights; African Americans; History
Other titles: Martin Luther King Jr. and the black social gospel
Description: "The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magnificent rhetoric, and ended in nightmarish despair. It won a few legislative victories and had a profound impact on U.S. society, but failed to break white supremacy. The symbol of the movement, Martin Luther King Jr., soared so high that he tends to overwhelm anything associated with him. Yet the tradition that best describes him and other leaders of the civil rights movement has been strangely overlooked.   In his latest book, Gary Dorrien continues to unearth the heyday and legacy of the black social gospel, a tradition with a shimmering history, a martyred central figure, and enduring relevance today. This part of the story centers around King and the mid-twentieth-century black church leaders who embraced the progressive, justice-oriented, internationalist social gospel from the beginning of their careers and fulfilled it, inspiring and leading America's greatest liberation movement."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: One; title: Achieving the black social gospel -- -- Two; title: Prophetic suffering and black internationalism -- -- Three; title: Moral politics and the soul of the world -- -- Four; title: Protest politics and power politics -- -- Five; title: Redeeming the soul of America -- -- Six; title: Nightmare fury and public sacrifice -- -- Seven; title: Theologies of liberation.