God and Race in American Politics, Mark A. Noll
God and Race in American Politics, Mark A. Noll
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God and Race in American Politics
A Short History

Author: Mark A. Noll

Narrator: Adam Verner

Unabridged: 5 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/30/2018


Synopsis

Mark Noll, one of the most influential historians of American religion writing today, traces the explosive political effects of the religious intermingling with race.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 listeners 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.God and Race in American Politics is a panoramic history that reveals the profound role of religion in American political history and in American discourse on race and social justice. The book is published by Princeton University Press.

About Mark A. Noll

Mark A. Noll is professor of history emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. His recent publications include In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492-1783; America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln; and, as coeditor, Protestantism after 500 Years.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason

This was a helpful overview of the role that the church/religion played in politics regarding race. Noll discusses the Civil War era, reconstruction, civil rights movement & even more modern day politics. Its sobering to you see the role that white southern evangelicals played in these periods. I’m......more

Goodreads review by Bob

Summary: This text explores the interwoven story of religion, race, and politics in American history, with a concluding theological reflection. Mark Noll makes the observation in this book, derived from his Stafford Little Lectures at Princeton University in 2006, that we have one of the most enlight......more

Goodreads review by Eddie

Noll provides a brief primer into the connection between race and religion as the two most important factors when discussing American politics. Engaging with the civil war, reconstruction, civil rights, and G W Bush eras, Noll draws a line from Scripture being largely used in defense of slavery and......more

Goodreads review by Jon

With insightful historical analysis and an impressive moral and “theological conclusion”, Noll provides an incredibly helpful book for understanding America’s religious and political failures and successes concerning race. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to further understand the comp......more