false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255806939m/4704751.jpg 4704751 1 <p>Religion has been a powerful political force throughout American history. When race enters the mix the results have been some of our greatest triumphs as a nation--and some of our most shameful failures. In this important book, Mark Noll, one of the most influential historians of American religion writing today, traces the explosive political effects of the religious intermingling with race.</p><p> Noll demonstrates how supporters and opponents of slavery and segregation drew equally on the Bible to justify the morality of their positions. He shows how a common evangelical heritage supported Jim Crow discrimination and contributed powerfully to the black theology of liberation preached by Martin Luther King Jr. In probing such connections, Noll takes readers from the 1830 slave revolt of Nat Turner through Reconstruction and the long Jim Crow era, from the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s to "values" voting in recent presidential elections. He argues that the greatest transformations in American political history, from the Civil War through the civil rights revolution and beyond, constitute an interconnected narrative in which opposing appeals to Biblical truth gave rise to often-contradictory religious and moral complexities. And he shows how this heritage remains alive today in controversies surrounding stem-cell research and abortion as well as civil rights reform.</p><p> <i>God and Race in American Politics</i> is a panoramic history that reveals the profound role of religion in American political history and in American discourse on race and social justice.</p> 4769083 7 9 2008 God and Race in American Politics: A Short History total:4|5:2|4:1|3:1| 4 17 15 1 5 0 false false Tue Dec 02 07:06:03 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 07:06:32 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Fri Aug 07 10:13:05 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 10:13:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 15 19:27:18 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 18:02:14 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 15 23:36:21 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 23:36:21 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Mar 27 08:49:09 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 08:49:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Mar 12 16:39:03 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 16:39:03 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Mar 04 12:55:35 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 08:26:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 12:55:35 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 24 18:43:06 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 18:43:06 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Dec 08 16:29:39 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 16:30:15 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Dec 01 14:22:56 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 14:22:58 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sun Nov 09 12:00:18 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 12:00:30 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Thu Oct 16 07:40:12 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 07:40:12 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Oct 11 14:32:30 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 14:32:32 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Sep 21 17:39:23 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 17:39:23 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Sep 18 07:16:54 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 07:16:54 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4704751