White Nationalism and Faith: Statements and Counter-Statements on American Identity

ISBN-13: 9781433170744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 154 str.

Camille Kaminski Lewis

Opis

This anthology compiles a selection of American texts that wield religious arguments in order to affirm or dismantle white supremacy. William Jennings Bryan, Billy Sunday, and Bob Jones as well as Barack Obama, Phil Snider, and Mitch Landrieu are just a few of the voices in dialogue.

Spis treści

Foreword - Acknowledgments - "When in Rome, Do as the Greeks!": Statements and Counter-Statements - Reconstructing America's Religious Rhetoric - Henry Grady: "The South and Her Problems" - John Roach Straton: "Saving America That the World Might Be Saved" - Maintaining America's White Piety - Billy Sunday: "The Theater, the Cards and the Dance" - Andrew West: "Why Princeton Did Not Ask Billy Sunday" - Bob Jones, Sr.: "Modern Woman" - Naming America's White Supremacy - Andrew Cobb Erwin: "I Come from Georgia!" - William Jennings Bryan: "Jesus Is More Needed" - Separating within American Itself - William Ward Ayer: "Evangelical Christianity Endangered by Its Fragmentized Condition" - E.Earle Ellis: "Segregation and the Kingdom of God" - Billy James Hargis: "The Cross and the Sickle" - James Forman: "Black Manifesto" - Carl McIntire: "Christian Manifesto" - Redeeming America from Its Original Sin - Terry Rude: "Southern Manhood" - Phil Snider: "The Right Side of History" - Barack Obama: "Eulogy for State Senator and Pastor Clementa Pinckney" - Mitch Landrieu: "On Removing Confederate Statues" - Confessing America's Sin of White Nationalism - James Williams: "Ending Racial Segregation in the Church".

O autorze

Camille Kaminski Lewis is Visiting Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Furman University. She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University in Rhetorical Studies and is the author of Romancing the Difference: Kenneth Burke, Bob Jones University, and the Rhetoric of Religious Fundamentalism.