U.Va. Regligious Studies professor Marsh argues that the Civil Rights movement was, at its core, a Christian attempt to forge a "beloved community" of believers who identify with the poor and dispossessed and seek justice on their behalf. As his alternative telling unfolds, he introduces r...

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1. Verfasser:	Marsh, Charles (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Basic Books 2005
Schlagworte:	Christentum Religion Civil rights movements > United States Civil rights > Religious aspects > Christianity Social justice > Religious aspects > Christianity Social justice > United States Bürgerrechtsbewegung Soziale Gerechtigkeit Glaube Christliche Sozialethik USA
Zusammenfassung:	U.Va. Regligious Studies professor Marsh argues that the Civil Rights movement was, at its core, a Christian attempt to forge a "beloved community" of believers who identify with the poor and dispossessed and seek justice on their behalf. As his alternative telling unfolds, he introduces readers to a Martin Luther King Jr. they may not recognize (one who looked forward to a life of privilege and comfort until he was forced into leadership of the Montgomery Bus Boycott), as well as lesser-known figures such as Koinonia farm founder Clarence Jordan and Voices of Calvary founder John Perkins. Both of these men, like many others featured in the book, came to activism by way of Christian faith and belie the popular notion of "the civil rights movement as a secular movement that used religion to its advantage." Marsh laces his narrative with powerful critiques of secularism-among both activists and academics-and of white evangelical Christians for shallow, ineffectual concern for the poor and for people of color.
Beschreibung:	X, 292 S. Ill.
ISBN:	0465044166 9780465044160 0465044158