This Worldwide Struggle - Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement

This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement examines a group of black Christian intellectuals and activists who looked abroad, even to other religious traditions, for ideas and practices that could transform American democracy.

List of contents

• Introduction Part of This Worldwide Struggle


• Chapter 1 Spiritual Recognition of Empire (1930s)


• Chapter 2 Passing Through a Similar Transition (1930s)


• Chapter 3 We Can Add to the World Justice (1940s)


• Chapter 4 An Admixture of Tragedy and Triumph (1940s)


• Chapter 5 Opposing Injustice, First of All in Ourselves (1940s and 1950s)


• Chapter 6 Moral Leadership of the World (1950s)

About the author

Sarah Azaransky is Assistant Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary. She is the author of The Dream is Freedom: Pauli Murray and American Democratic Faith and the editor of Religion and Politics in America's Borderlands.

Summary

This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement examines a group of black Christian intellectuals and activists who looked abroad, even to other religious traditions, for ideas and practices that could transform American democracy.

Additional text

[A] rewarding historical study...This Worldwide Struggle makes several interventions in religious and social ethics. It addresses the gap in histories of black internationalism which overlook religious intellectuals and in peace movement histories which ignore racial speci?city. It contributes to civil rights studies' consideration of this generation of religious thinkers, further expanding what Jacquelyn Dowd Hall calls the 'long civil rights movement' through an international moral geography.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Azaransky, Sarah (Assistant Professor Azaransky, Azaransky Sarah
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.07.2017
• EAN: 9780190262204
• ISBN: 978-0-19-026220-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Christianity / General, HISTORY / United States / General, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources, Christianity, Religion & politics, United States of America, USA, Religion and Politics, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State, Civics and citizenship, Religious social and pastoral thought and activity, Christian social thought & activity