Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow

Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow
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Publisher : LSU Press
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9780807177709
ISBN-13 : 0807177709
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Synopsis Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow by : Brendan J. J. Payne

In Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow, Brendan J. J. Payne reveals how prohibition helped realign the racial and religious order in the South by linking restrictions on alcohol with political preaching and the disfranchisement of Black voters. While both sides invoked Christianity, prohibitionists redefined churches’ doctrines, practices, and political engagement. White prohibitionists initially courted Black voters in the 1880s but soon dismissed them as hopelessly wet and sought to disfranchise them, stoking fears of drunken Black men defiling white women in their efforts to reframe alcohol restriction as a means of racial control. Later, as the alcohol industry grew desperate, it turned to Black voters, many of whom joined the brewers to preserve their voting rights and maintain personal liberties. Tracking southern debates about alcohol from the 1880s through the 1930s, Payne shows that prohibition only retreated from the region once the racial and religious order it helped enshrine had been secured.

Evangelicals and Social Action

Evangelicals and Social Action
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Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
Total Pages : 345
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ISBN-10 : 9781783596591
ISBN-13 : 1783596597
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Evangelicals and Social Action by : Ian J. Shaw

Evangelical Christians around the world have debated for years the extent to which they should be involved in ministries of social action and concern. In Evangelicals and Social Action Ian J. Shaw offers clarity to these debates by tracing the historical involvement of the evangelical church with issues of social action. Focusing on thinking and practices from John Wesley, one of the architects of eighteenth century evangelicalism, to John Stott's work in the second half of the twentieth century, he explores whether evangelism and social action really have been intimately related throughout the history of the church as Stott contended. After an overview of Christian social action prior to Wesley, from the early church through to the eighteenth century, Evangelicals and Social Action explores in detail responses from the evangelical church around the world to eighteen key issues of social action and concern - including poverty, racial equality, addiction, children 'at risk,' slavery, unemployment, and learning disability - encountered between the 1730s and the 1970s. Drawn from a wide range of contexts, these examples illuminate and clarify how Evangelical Christianity has viewed and been a part of ministries of social action over the last three centuries. With an assessment of the issues raised by this historical survey and its implications for evangelicals in the contemporary world, Evangelicals and Social Action is a book that will help better inform the debates around the evangelical church and social action still happening today. This is a book for anyone wanting to deepen their knowledge of the history of the evangelical church, and anyone wanting to better understand Christian social action from an evangelical perspective.

Evangelicals at a Crossroads

Evangelicals at a Crossroads
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Publisher : UPNE
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9781584659419
ISBN-13 : 1584659416
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Evangelicals at a Crossroads by : Benjamin L. Hartley

The story of Boston revivalism and social reform

The American Catalogue

The American Catalogue
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Total Pages : 762
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015033654552
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Synopsis The American Catalogue by :

American national trade bibliography.