W.E.B. Du Bois : toward agnosticism, 1868-1934 / Brian L. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Brian, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963--Religion.

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963--Political and social views.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963--Language.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

Agnosticism--United States--Case studies.

Agnosticism.

Skepticism--United States--Case studies.

Skepticism.

Rhetoric--Religious aspects--Christianity--Case studies.

Rhetoric.

African Americans--Religion--Case studies.

African Americans.

African Americans--Religion.

Rhetoric--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Political and social views.

Religion.

United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 141 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2008]

Summary:

Brian L. Johnson's remarkable biography of W.E.B. Du Bois describes the evolution of Du Bois's religious views from his birth until his resignation as editor of Crisis magazine in 1934. W.E.B. Du Bois: Toward Agnosticism, 1868-1934 traces Du Bois's mounting skepticism through his earliest church experiences to his sociological training in Berlin culminating with his writings in The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races. Johnson argues that despite Du Bois's frequent use of Protestant religious rhetoric, the mature Du Bois was a critic of African American religious organizations and their leaders and a scientifically oriented agnostic who did not adhere to any religious orthodoxy.

Contents:

The First Congregational Church of Great Barrington

T. Thomas Fortune's New York globe (freeman) and Great Barrington's "very religious" and "strange" settlers

From a Christian pragmatism to social science : Fisk, Harvard, and Berlin

Silent times : the preacher, the scholar, and the American Negro Academy

"As the crow flies"

The agnostic pulpit : The crisis : a record of the darker races

Epilogue: "The great Ghandi," "The prophet of Communism," and agnostic legacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780742564497

0742564495

OCLC:

228701344