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By Gary Dorrien

The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to invite what a “new abolition” will require in American society. It turned an immense culture of non secular idea and resistance, aiding to create another public sphere of excluded voices and supplying the highbrow underpinnings of the civil rights stream. this practice has been heavily missed, regardless of its mammoth legacy.
 
during this groundbreaking paintings, Gary Dorrien describes the early historical past of the black social gospel from its nineteenth-century founding to its shut organization within the 20th century with W. E. B. Du Bois. He bargains a brand new viewpoint on glossy Christianity and the civil rights period by means of delineating the culture of social justice theology and activism that ended in Martin Luther King Jr.

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