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God´s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights

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Description for God´s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights Paperback. In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice. This work takes us back to this place and time. Num Pages: 296 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; HRC; JFFJ; JFSL; JPVH; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice. This was the summer when violence against blacks increased at an alarming rate and when the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi resulted in national media attention. Charles Marsh takes us back to this place and time, when the lives of activists on all sides of the civil rights issue converged and their images of God clashed. He weaves their voices into ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691130675
SKU
V9780691130675
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About Charles Marsh
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, T"he Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today".

Reviews for God´s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
Winner of the 1998 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion, University of Louisville and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Co-Winner of the 1998 Towson University Prize for Literature "Original and uncommonly thoughtful... This is a comprehensive, imaginative, fair-minded and perceptive book, a significant contribution to our understanding of those men and women who fought those terrible wars in what seems so ... Read more

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