The Bible told them so : how Southern Evangelicals fought to preserve white supremacy / J. Russell Hawkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawkins, J. Russell, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Segregation--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Segregation.

Segregation--South Carolina--History--20th century.

Christians, White--South Carolina--History.

Christians, White.

White supremacy movements--Religious aspects--Christianity.

White supremacy movements.

Racism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Racism.

South Carolina--Church history--20th century.

South Carolina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'The Bible Told Them So' explains why southern white evangelical Christians in South Carolina resisted the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Simply put, they believed the Bible told them so. Interpreting the Bible in such a way, these white Christians entered the battle against the civil rights movement certain that God was on their side. Ultimately, the civil rights movement triumphed in the 1960s and, with its success, fundamentally transformed American society. But such a victory did little to change southern white evangelicals' theological commitment to segregation and white supremacy. Rather than abandoning their segregationist theology in the second half of the 1960s, white evangelicals turned their focus on institutions they still controlled - churches, homes, denominations, and private colleges and secondary schools - and fought on.

Contents:

Cover

The Bible Told Them So

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: "As Old as the Scriptures . . . "

1. Not in Our Church: Congregational Backlash to Brown v. Board of Education

2. The Bounds of Their Habitation: The Theological Foundation of Segregationist Christianity

3. Jim Crow on Christian Campuses: The Desegregation of Furman and Wofford

4. Embracing Colorblindness: The Methodist Merger and the Transformation of Segregationist Christianity

5. Focusing on the Family: Private Schools and the New Shape of Segregationist Christianity

Epilogue: The Heirs of Segregationist Christianity

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-757139-5

0-19-757107-7

OCLC:

1235902612