Mississippi Praying
Subtitle: southern white evangelicals and the Civil Rights movement, 1945-1975
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781479823512
Notes: Winner of the 2013 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize presented by the American Society of Church History
Table of contents: title: Introduction : History, white religion, and the civil rights movement; title: Segregation and the religious worlds of white Mississippians; title: Conversations about race in the post-war world; title: Responding to Brown : the recalcitrant parish; title: "A strange and serious Christian heresy" : massive resistance and the religious defense of segregation; title: "Ask for the old paths" : Mississippi's Southern Baptists and segregation; title: "Born of conviction" : the travail of Mississippi Methodism; title: The Jackson church visits : "a good quarter-time church with a bird dog and shot gun"; title: "Warped and distorted reflections" : Mississippi and the North; title: Race and restructuring of American religion; title: Conclusion : A theology on the wrong side of history