TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hawkins,J.Russell
TI  - The Bible told them so: how Southern Evangelicals fought to preserve white supremacy 
SN  - 9780197571064
AV  - BR555.S6 H39 2021
U1  - 261.709757/09045 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Segregation
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - South Carolina
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Christians, White
KW  - White supremacy movements
KW  - Baptists
KW  - Methodists
KW  - Racism
KW  - Ségrégation
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Caroline du Sud
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Mouvements pour la suprématie blanche
KW  - Baptistes
KW  - Méthodistes
KW  - fast
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Church history
KW  - Histoire religieuse
KW  - Relations raciales
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-202) and index; Introduction: "As old as the Scriptures..." -- Not in our church : congregational backlash to Brown v. Board of Education -- The bounds of their habitation : the theological foundation of segregationist Christianity -- Jim Crow on Christian campuses : the desegregation of Furman and Wofford -- Embracing colorblindness : the Methodist merger and the transformation of segregationist Christianity -- Focusing on the family : private schools and the new shape of segregationist Christianity -- Epilogue: the heirs of segregationist Christianity
N2  - "The Bible Told Them So explains why southern white evangelical Christians in South Carolina resisted the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Simply put, they believed the Bible told them so. Interpreting the Bible in such a way, these white Christians entered the battle against the civil rights movement certain that God was on their side. Ultimately, the civil rights movement triumphed in the 1960s and, with its success, fundamentally transformed American society. But such a victory did little to change southern white evangelicals' theological commitment to segregation. Rather than abandoning their segregationist theology in the second half of the 1960s, white evangelicals turned their focus on institutions they still controlled--churches, homes, denominations, and private colleges and secondary schools--and fought on. Despite suffering defeat in the public sphere, white evangelicals continued to battle for their own institutions, preaching and practicing a segregationist Christianity they continued to believe reflected God's will. Increasingly caught in the tension between their sincere beliefs that God desired segregation and their reticence to vocalize such ideas for fear of seeming bigoted or intolerant by the late 1960s, southern white evangelicals eventually embraced rhetoric of colorblindness and protection of the family as measures to maintain both segregation and respectable social standing. Such a strategy set southern white evangelicals on an alternative path for race relations in the decades ahead"--
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