Author:
Dupont, Carolyn Renée.
ImprintNew York : NYU Press, 2013.
Descriptionxii, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Note:Introduction : history, white religion, and the civil rights movement -- Segregation and the religious worlds of white Mississippians -- Conversations about race in the post-war world -- Responding to Brown : the recalcitrant parish -- "A strange and serious Christian heresy" : massive resistance and the religious defense of segregation -- "Ask for the old paths" : Mississippi's Southern Baptists and segregation -- "Born of conviction" : the travail of Mississippi Methodism -- The Jackson church visits : "a good quarter-time church with a bird dog and shot gun" -- "Warped and distorted reflections" : Mississippi and the North -- Race and restructuring of American religion -- Conclusion : a theology on the wrong side of history.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
