God with Us: Lived Theology and the Freedom Struggle in Americus, Georgia, 1942-1976 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781469646756)

For many, the struggle over civil rights was not just about lunch counters, waiting rooms, or even access to the vote; it was also about Christian theology. Since both activists and segregationists ardently claimed that God was on their side, racial issues were imbued with religious meanings from all sides. Whether in the traditional sanctuaries of the major white Protestant denominations, in the mass meetings in black churches, or in Christian expressions of interracialism, southerners resisted, pursued, and questioned racial change within various theological traditions.

God with Us examines the theological struggle over racial justice through the story of one southern town -- Americus, Georgia -- where ordinary Americans sought and confronted racial change in the twentieth century. Documenting the passion and virulence of these contestations, this book offers insight into how midcentury battles over theology and race affected the rise of the Religious Right and indeed continue to resonate deeply in American life.

Author: Ansley L. Quiros
ISBN-10: 1469646757
ISBN-13: 9781469646756
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2018
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d