Born of conviction : white Methodists and Mississippi's closed society / Joseph T. Reiff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reiff, Joseph T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Methodist Church--Mississippi--History.

Methodist Church.

Race relations--Religious aspects--Methodist Church.

Race relations.

Mississippi--Church history.

Mississippi.

Gulfport (Miss.)--History.

Gulfport (Miss.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The dominant narrative of the role of white citizens and the white church in Mississippi's civil rights era focuses on their intense resistance to change. The ""Born of Conviction"" statement, signed by twenty-eight white Methodist pastors and published in the Mississippi Methodist Advocate on January 2, 1963, offered an alternative witness to the segregationist party line. Calling for freedom of the pulpit and reminding readers of the Methodist Discipline's claim that the teachings of Jesus permit ""no discrimination because of race, color, or creed,"" the pastors sought to speak to and for a

Contents:

Born of conviction cast of characters

Introduction : at the church steps

Prelude to a crisis

Methodism and Mississippi

The road to born of conviction : sources of dissent

Mississippi 1962

Born of conviction : call and response

A time to speak

Methodist ministers shatter vacuum : January 1963

Congregational and community responses

What became of the twenty-eight?

Spoke out, forced out?

Continuing exodus

A mind to stay here

Memory and legacy

Assessing and remembering born of conviction

Legacies of born of conviction.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-024683-9

0-19-024682-0