Getting Right With God - Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995

Informationen zum Autor Mark Newman is a reader of history at the University of Edinburgh's School of History, Classics, and Archaeology. Newman's Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995, won the Lillian Smith Book Award for nonfiction from the Southern Regional Council, the American Studies Network Book Prize from the European Association for American Studies, and the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize from the University of Alabama Press. Klappentext This groundbreaking study finds Southern Baptists more diverse in their attitudes toward segregation than previously assumed Zusammenfassung Focusing on the eleven states of the old Confederacy! Getting Right with God examines the evolution of Southern Baptists' attitudes toward African Americans during a tumultuous period of change in the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Newman
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2013
• EAN: 9780817357375
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5737-5
• Series: Religion and American Culture; Religion and American Culture; Religion & American Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity