James B. Bennett

Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Bennett offers a complex picture of racial separatism and integration within the religious life of the post-Reconstruction South. He challenges many common assumptions and helps us to see how complicated life was for freed slaves, and how much their struggle cost them personally. A superior contribution."--Albert Raboteau, author of Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans"James Bennett's superbly researched book tackles the still timely problem of racial prejudice in American religion. Bennett's heart-rending account of the Jim Crow era in New Orleans describes the African-American insistence on open and mixed congregations amidst the failure of many white Protestant and Catholic leaders to resist bigotry. With stunning probity, it sheds new light on some of the most difficult events in America's religious and social development."--Jon Butler, Yale University"A significant, innovative contribution to our understanding of segregation, religion and the South. Bennett's scholarship is impressive and he has produced a fine, well-written book."--Donald G. Mathews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780691170848
• ISBN-10: 0691170843
• Artikelnr.: 44027482

Autorenporträt

James B. Bennett is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University.