The Social Gospel: Black & White: American Racial Reform, 1885-1912 (Studies in Religion) - Softcover

Luker, Ralph E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807847208 ISBN 13: 9780807847206

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998

Synopsis

In a major revision of accepted wisdom, this book, originally published by UNC Press in 1991, demonstrates that American social Christianity played an important role in racial reform during the period between Emancipation and the civil rights movement. As organizations created by the heirs of antislavery sentiment foundered in the mid-1890s, Ralph Luker argues, a new generation of black and white reformers--many of them representatives of American social Christianity--explored a variety of solutions to the problem of racial conflict. Some of them helped to organize the Federal Council of Churches in 1909, while others returned to abolitionist and home missionary strategies in organizing the NAACP in 1910 and the National Urban League in 1911. A half century later, such organizations formed the institutional core of America's civil rights movement. Luker also shows that the black prophets of social Christianity who espoused theological personalism created an influential tradition that eventually produced Martin Luther King Jr. |Examines the impact of the new wave of black and white reformers, many of them social Christians, who struggled for solutions to America's racial problems between 1885 and 1912.

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Review:

"[T]his is the most thorough study yet done of religion and racial reform in the Social Gospel era.

David W. Wills, Amherst College"

"He presents the social gospel spokesmen in all their diversity, black and white, conservative and liberal, enthusiastic and agonizing.

Louis R. Harlan, University of Maryland at College Park"

"Massive, thoroughly documented, clearly written, [and] judicious.

"Church History""

[Luker] has given the proper prescription to cure the astigmatism of the historians looking at the social gospel.

"Christian Century"

[M]akes a good case for broadening the definition of the Social Gospel to include the white and African-American reformers.

"American Historical Review"

İT¨his is the most thorough study yet done of religion and racial reform in the Social Gospel era.

David W. Wills, Amherst College

İLuker¨ has given the proper prescription to cure the astigmatism of the historians looking at the social gospel.

"Christian Century"

He presents the social gospel spokesmen in all their diversity, black and white, conservative and liberal, enthusiastic and agonizing.

Louis R. Harlan, University of Maryland at College Park

Massive, thoroughly documented, clearly written, İand¨ judicious.

"Church History"

İM¨akes a good case for broadening the definition of the Social Gospel to include the white and African-American reformers.

"American Historical Review"

Synopsis:

As organizations created by the heirs of antislavery sentiment foundered in the mid-1890s, Ralph Luker argues, a new generation of black and white reformers - many of them representatives of American social Christianity - explored a variety of solutions to the problem of racial conflict.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0807847208
• ISBN 13: 9780807847206
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464