Black fundamentalists : conservative Christianity and racial identity in the segregation era /

This book reveals the role of Black Fundamentalists during the early part of the twentieth century. As the modernist-fundamentalist controversy came to a head in the early twentieth century, an image of the "fighting fundamentalist" was imprinted on the American cultural consciousness. To...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bare, Daniel R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2021].
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • "Filled to overflowing": Black weeklies and the fundamentalist presence
  • Formulating the faith: the five fundamentals across racial lines
  • Polemics from the pulpit: antimodernist preaching and racial applications
  • Religious education and interracial cooperation: the American Baptist Theological Seminary
  • Contested identities: fundamentalism, race, and Americanism
  • Conclusion.