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Book

White evangelical racism : the politics of morality in America

Call Number

  • 305.67 B9851 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]

Physical Description

164 pages ; 20 cm

Summary

"The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power." --

Notes

"A Ferris and Ferris book."

Contents

  • Introduction: evangelical racism: a feature, not a bug
  • The racist foundations of evangelicalism in the nineteenth century
  • Saving the nation: fervor, fear, and challenges to Jim Crow
  • Whitewashing racism and the rise of the religious right
  • How firm a foundation: a twenty-first-century precipice appears
  • Conclusion: whom will you serve?

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