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Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans
James B. Bennett
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Description for Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HRCC2; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans examines a difficult chapter in American religious history: the story of race prejudice in American Christianity. Focusing on the largest city in the late-nineteenth-century South, it explores the relationship between churches--black and white, Protestant and Catholic--and the emergence of the Jim Crow laws, statutes that created a racial caste system in the American South. The book fills a gap in the scholarship on religion and race in the crucial decades between the end of Reconstruction and the eve of the Civil Rights movement. Drawing on a range of local and ... Read more
Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans examines a difficult chapter in American religious history: the story of race prejudice in American Christianity. Focusing on the largest city in the late-nineteenth-century South, it explores the relationship between churches--black and white, Protestant and Catholic--and the emergence of the Jim Crow laws, statutes that created a racial caste system in the American South. The book fills a gap in the scholarship on religion and race in the crucial decades between the end of Reconstruction and the eve of the Civil Rights movement. Drawing on a range of local and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691170848
SKU
V9780691170848
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About James B. Bennett
James B. Bennett is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University.
Reviews for Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans
"James Bennett has written a superb study of the tensions between religion and race among black Methodists and Catholics in New Orleans between 1880 and 1920... [He] provides important comparisons of Methodist and Roman Catholic leaders and church members who either resisted or supported racial separatism and the effects of this growing separatism on their identity."
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