White evangelical racism the politics of morality in America
"The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler argues that racism is at the core of conservat...
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2024]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a White evangelical racism : |b the politics of morality in America / |c Anthea Butler ; with a new preface by the author. |
| 250 | |a Second edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Chapel Hill : |b The University of North Carolina Press, |c [2024] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2024 | |
| 300 | |a xiii, 164 pages ; |c 19 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a "A Ferris and Ferris book." | ||
| 500 | |a "This book was published under the Marcie Cohen Ferris and William R. Ferris Imprint of the University of North Carolina Press." | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface to the second edition -- Introduction: Evangelical racism: a feature, not a bug -- The racist foundations of evangelicalism in the nineteenth century -- Saving the nation: fervor, fear, and challenges to Jim Crow -- Whitewashing racism and the rise of the religious right -- How firm a foundation: a twenty-first-century precipice appears -- Conclusion: Whom will you serve? | |
| 520 | |a "The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler argues that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power. Propelled by the benefits of whiteness, white evangelicals used scripture to defend slavery and nurture the Confederacy during the Civil War era. During Reconstruction, they used it to deny the vote to newly emancipated blacks. In the twentieth century, they sided with segregationists in avidly opposing movements for racial equality and civil rights. White evangelicals today, cloaked in a vision of Christian patriarchy and nationhood, form a staunch voting bloc in support of white leadership. Evangelicalism's racial history festers, splits America, and needs a reckoning now. In a new preface to the second edition, Butler takes stock of how the trends she identified have expanded as Donald Trump mounts a third campaign for the presidency, evangelicals celebrate and respond to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and ferocious backlash against racial equity has injected new venom into evangelicalism's role in American politics"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Racism |x Religious aspects |x Christianity. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Christians, White |z United States |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Religion and politics |z United States |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Racism |z United States |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x Church history. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x Race relations. | |
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