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03723aam a2200421 i 4500 001 4685B164CAD811ECB187E7395AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220503065729 008 210116s2021 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020058623 020 $a 0197571069 020 $a 9780197571064 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1225288020 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d WIO $d UKMGB $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-sc 050 00 $a BR555.S6 $b H39 2021 082 00 $a 261.709757/09045 $2 23 100 1 $a Hawkins, J. Russell, $e author. 245 14 $a The Bible told them so : $b how Southern Evangelicals fought to preserve white supremacy / $c J. Russell Hawkins. 260 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xii, 210 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: "As old as the Scriptures..." -- Not in our church : congregational backlash to Brown v. Board of Education -- The Bible told them so : the theological foundation of segregationist Christianity -- Jim Crow on Christian campuses : the desegregation of Furman and Wofford -- Natural affinities, mutual appreciation, voluntary consent : the Methodist merger and the transformation of segregationist Christianity -- Focusing on the family : private schools and the new shape of segregationist Christianity -- Epilogue: the heirs of segregationist Christianity. 520 $a "The Bible Told Them So explains why southern white evangelical Christians in South Carolina resisted the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Simply put, they believed the Bible told them so. Interpreting the Bible in such a way, these white Christians entered the battle against the civil rights movement certain that God was on their side. Ultimately, the civil rights movement triumphed in the 1960s and, with its success, fundamentally transformed American society. But such a victory did little to change southern white evangelicals' theological commitment to segregation. Rather than abandoning their segregationist theology in the second half of the 1960s, white evangelicals turned their focus on institutions they still controlled-churches, homes, denominations, and private colleges and secondary schools-and fought on. Despite suffering defeat in the public sphere, white evangelicals continued to battle for their own institutions, preaching and practicing a segregationist Christianity they continued to believe reflected God's will. Increasingly caught in the tension between their sincere beliefs that God desired segregation and their reticence to vocalize such ideas for fear of seeming bigoted or intolerant by the late 1960s, southern white evangelicals eventually embraced rhetoric of colorblindness and protection of the family as measures to maintain both segregation and respectable social standing. Such a strategy set southern white evangelicals on an alternative path for race relations in the decades ahead"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Segregation $x Christianity. $x Christianity. 650 0 $a Segregation $z South Carolina $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Christians, White $z South Carolina $x History. 650 0 $a White supremacy movements $x Christianity. $x Christianity. 650 0 $a Baptists $z South Carolina. 650 0 $a Methodists $z South Carolina. 650 0 $a Racism $x Christianity. $x Christianity. 651 0 $a South Carolina $x Church history $y 20th century. 651 0 $a South Carolina $x Race relations. 941 $a 2 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525041928.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220503071401.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4685B164CAD811ECB187E7395AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search