White nationalism and faith : statements and counter-statements on American identity / Camille Kaminski Lewis, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewis, Camille Kaminski, editor.

Series:

Speaking of religion ; vol. 3.

Speaking of religion ; vol. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White supremacy movements--United States--History--Sources.

White supremacy movements.

White nationalism--United States--History--Sources.

White nationalism.

White supremacy movements--United States--Religious aspects.

White nationalism--United States--Religious aspects.

Race relations.

White supremacy movements--Religious aspects.

History.

United States--Race relations--History--Sources.

United States.

United States--Religious life and customs.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xi, 152 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., [2020]

Summary:

"According to Kenneth Burke, every idea houses its opposite. "Heresies and orthodoxies will always be changing places," he imagined, "but whatever the minority view happens to be at any given time, one must consider it as 'counter.'" In other words, every tradition contains its own critique. Ideas are always in dialogue, bridging gaps that we may not have known existed until the bridges were built. And alongside those bridges are other implied ways to transfer and create meaning. To foreground that pendulum and address our contemporary political climate, White Nationalism and Faith: Statements and Counter-Statements on American Identity will include American texts which wield religious arguments in order to affirm or dismantle white supremacy. William Jennings Bryan, Billy Sunday, and Bob Jones as well as Barack Obama, Phil Snider, and Mitch Landrieu are just a few of the voices in dialogue. This anthology is designed for the upper-level undergraduate or master's student so that they can explore how American rhetors since the Civil War have constituted their white nationalism through religious rhetoric. With this anthology of statements and their contemporaneous counter-statements, I hope to craft and polish the same serious but comedic lens as Kenneth Burke imagined in the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Reconstructing America's Religious Rhetoric

ch. One "The South and Her Problems" / Henry Grady

ch. Two "Saving America That the World Might Be Saved" / John Roach Straton

pt. 2 Maintaining America's White Piety

ch. Three "The Theater, the Cards and the Dance" / Billy Sunday

ch. Four "Why Princeton Did Not Ask Billy Sunday" / Andrew West

ch. Five "Modern Woman" / Bob Jones Sr.

pt. 3 Naming America's White Supremacy

ch. Six "I Come from Georgia!" / Andrew Cobb Erwin

ch. Seven "Jesus Is More Needed" / William Jennings Bryan

pt. 4 Separating within American Itself

ch. Eight "Evangelical Christianity Endangered by Its Fragmentized Condition" / William Ward Ayer

ch. Nine "Segregation and the Kingdom of God" / E. Earle Ellis

ch. Ten "The Cross and the Sickle" / Billy James Hargis

ch. Eleven "Black Manifesto" / James Forman

ch. Twelve "Christian Manifesto" / Carl McIntire

pt. 5 Redeeming America from Its Original Sin

ch. Thirteen "Southern Manhood" / Terry Rude

ch. Fourteen "The Right Side of History" / Phil Snider

ch. Fifteen "Eulogy for State Senator and Pastor Clementa Pinckney" / Barack Obama

ch. Sixteen "On Removing Confederate Statues" / Mitch Landrieu.

Notes:

"The Speaking of religion series is part of the Peter Land media and communication list."

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: White nationalism and faith

ISBN:

9781433170751

1433170752

9781433170744

1433170744

OCLC:

1157815964

Publisher Number:

99986138375