African American religion and the civil rights movement in Arkansas [electronic resource] / Johnny E. Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Johnny E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--Arkansas--History.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--Arkansas--History.

Civil rights movements.

African American civil rights workers--Religious life--Arkansas.

African American civil rights workers.

African Americans--Arkansas--Religion.

African American churches--Arkansas--History.

African American churches.

Religion and politics--Arkansas--History.

Religion and politics.

Arkansas--Race relations.

Arkansas.

Arkansas--Church history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Civil Rights -- Religious History--> What role did religion play in sparking the call for civil rights? Was the African American church a motivating force or a calming eddy? The conventional view among scholars of the period is that religion as a source for social activism was marginal, conservative, or pacifying. Not so, argues Johnny E. Williams. Focusing on the state of Arkansas as typical in the role of ecclesiastical activism, his book argues that black religion from the period of slavery through the era of segregation provided theological resources that motivated and sustained preachers

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Cultural Dimensions of Collective Action; Chapter 2. History of Activist Religious Interpretation; Chapter 3. Church Culture and Sociopolitical Movements during Reconstruction and Post-Reconstruction; Chapter 4. Social Activism Preceding the Desegregation Movement in Little Rock; Chapter 5. Religion's Effect on Mobilizing Civil Rights Protest; Chapter 6. Culture's Centrality in African-American Women's Civil Rights Activism; Chapter 7. Theoretical Conclusions; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J

KL; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-171) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-43451-2

9786613434517

1-60473-584-8

OCLC:

774384925