Doctrine and Race: African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism Between the Wars
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Description
By presenting African American Protestantism in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism, Doctrine and Race: African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars 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. Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews’s study scrutinizes how white fundamentalists wrote blacks out of their definition of fundamentalism and how blacks constructed a definition of Christianity that had, at its core, an intrinsic belief in racial equality. In doing so, this volume challenges the prevailing scholarly argument that fundamentalism was either a doctrinal debate or an antimodernist force. Instead, it was a constantly shifting set of priorities for different groups at different times.
ISBN
9780817359188
Publication Date
2017
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
City
Tuscaloosa
Keywords
African Americans, Evangelicalism, Church History, Religion, Baptists
Disciplines
African American Studies | Christianity | United States History
Recommended Citation
Mathews, Mary Beth Swetnam, "Doctrine and Race: African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism Between the Wars" (2017). Classics, Philosophy, and Religion Books. 2.
https://scholar.umw.edu/cpr_books/2