TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dorrien,Gary J.
TI  - The new abolition.: W.E.B. Du Bois and the black social gospel 
SN  - 9780300205602
AV  - BT82.7 .D677 2015
U1  - 230.089/96073 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Du Bois, W. E. B.
KW  - Black theology
KW  - History
KW  - Social gospel
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Theology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a "new abolition" would require in American society. It became an important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of excluded voices and providing the intellectual underpinnings of the civil rights movement. This tradition has been egregiously overlooked, despite its immense legacy. In this groundbreaking work, Gary Dorrien describes the early history of the black social gospel from its nineteenth-century founding to its close association in the twentieth century with W. E. B. Du Bois. He offers a new perspective on modern Christianity and the civil rights era by delineating the tradition of social justice theology and activism that led to Martin Luther King Jr
ER  -