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Title: God's Long Summer by Charles Marsh ISBN: 0-691-02940-7 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 22 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Where was God during the Civil Rights Movement?
Comment: Marsh's book is a truly poignant view of real Southern people during the civil rights movement. He is able to capture each of the five individual's quite different understandings of God and His actual place in their lives during this time of great struggle. Marsh takes you on a journey of different Christian imaginations as he examines the beliefs of an outstanding woman fighting for her rights as a black woman, an ex-headmaster of the Ku Klux Klan, a black militant leader, a middle-of-the-road preacher, and a white minister who managed to "cross-over" racial lines and fight for freedom. These are wonderful and heartfelt stories being presented by Marsh, and must be read by anyone who has lived through the time of the civil rights movement.
Rating: 3
Summary: middling civil rights scholarship
Comment: This books uses biographies of a handful of people whose lives huddle around Freedom Summer in Mississippi to talk about the role of Christian faith in the movement. Its assumption that the role of faith has been underplayed is overstated; actually, the first wave of civil rights scholarship all focused on MLK and the black church as titles suggest: BEARING THE CROSS, PARTING THE WATERS, etc. Marsh's use of biographical portraits is effective, but he sometimes deals in stereotypes. Fanny Lou Hamer, far more interesting in life than in this account, is almost a mammy figure, strong and virtuous: we never find out that she kept a gun and called herself a black nationalist, and her humanity is somewhat diminished by the "indomitable" and angelic angle. Cleveland Sellers, who represents the "mistaken black radical" view, is sort of stuffed into the book, as though Marsh couldn't find a Black Power figure who was actually from Mississippi, and his portrait of Sellers is fundamentally wrong. His chapter on Sam Bowers, the twisted KKK theologian, takes his theology far too seriously, at the expense of his murderous life. The real jewel is Marsh's portrayal of Douglas Hudgins, a mainstream Baptist minister who supports segregation. I have twice succumbed to the temptation to assign this book to my students because it's nicely written and short. But the students don't like it much, and the smart ones like it even less. The design of the book is a model for historians, though, and there are some interesting things in this book, though I have not been able to get many of my students to find them.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Faith" and civil rights in Mississippi.
Comment: Highly recommended account of the role of "faith" in the lives of five prominent figures in Mississippi during the civil rights movement. Saints (Fannie Lou Hamer, Edwin King, Cleveland Sellers) and sinners (Sam Bowers and Douglas Hudgins) are both represented. Hudgins and other Jackson elites come off nearly as loathsome as Bowers. Marsh's prose is brilliant, providing for a lively and inspiring read.
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Title: The Sacred World of the Penitentes by Alberto Lopez Pulido ISBN: 1560983949 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Thank You St. Jude: Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Cause by Robert A. Orsi ISBN: 0300076592 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America by Randall Balmer ISBN: 0195131800 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: A New Religious America: How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation by Diana L. Eck ISBN: 0060621591 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 28 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Moral Vision of the New Testament : Community, Cross, New CreationA Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethic by Richard Hays ISBN: 006063796X Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 04 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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