God's Long Summer
Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
1st Edition
Published on 10. February 2020
296 pages
978-0-691-20699-8 (ISBN)
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03/2008
Princeton University Press
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Charles Marsh is professor of religious studies and director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, he is the author of Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Last Days and, most recently, The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE TO THE 2008 EDITION
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION With God on Our Side: Faiths in Conflict
- CHAPTER ONE "I'm on My Way, Praise God": Mrs. Hamer's Fight for Freedom
- Sticking with Civil Rights
- The Beginning of a New Kingdom
- Questioning America
- The Welcome Table
- CHAPTER TWO High Priest of the Anti-Civil Rights Movement: The Calling of Sam Bowers
- The Making of a Christian Militant
- Patriots for Jesus
- The Warrior Priest
- Eliminating the Heretics
- Against the World Rulers of This Present Darkness
- CHAPTER THREE Douglas Hudgins: Theologian of the Closed Society
- The Closed Society
- An Uncluttered Life
- Civil Rights Distractions
- A Piety of the Pure Soul
- The Interior Battle
- CHAPTER FOUR Inside Agitator: Ed King's Church Visits
- Breaking Free
- Inside Agitator
- The Church Visits
- Burying the Dead
- The Countercultural Christ
- CHAPTER FIVE Cleveland Sellers and the River of No Return
- Into the River
- The Long, Hot Summer
- Beyond the Beloved Community
- Black Power
- In the Rapids and Losing Control
- SNCC the Closed Society
- CONCLUSION Clearbuming: Fragments of a Reconciling Faith
- AFTERWORD
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INTERVIEWS
- INDEX
