Doctrine and Race - African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism Between the Wars

Doctrine and Race examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century and their struggle for equality in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism.

About the author

Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews is an associate professor of religion at the University of Mary Washington and is the author of Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South.

Summary

Examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century. By presenting African American Protestantism in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism, this study demonstrates that African American Protestants were acutely aware of the manner in which white Christianity operated and how they could use that knowledge to justify social change.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780817359188
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5918-8
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Religion and American Culture; Religion and American Culture; Religion & American Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity