Book
White evangelical racism : the politics of morality in America
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?