{"id":1581,"date":"2013-02-06T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/02\/the-quandary-of-african-american-evangelicalism.html"},"modified":"2013-02-06T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T18:01:00","slug":"the-quandary-of-african-american-evangelicalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/02\/the-quandary-of-african-american-evangelicalism.html","title":{"rendered":"The Quandary of African American Evangelicalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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John Fea\u2019s recent Anxious Bench post, \u201cWhere Are the Studies of Twentieth-Century Black Evangelicalism<\/a>?\u201d raised an excellent question, one that confronted me over a decade ago as a graduate student in\u00a0Dennis Dickerson<\/a>\u2019s Religion and the Civil Rights seminar.\u00a0 At that time, works on twentieth-century African American religious history and the \u201cblack church\u201d were readily available.\u00a0 Works on twentieth-century American evangelicalism could also be obtained easily.\u00a0 But rarely did the former employ the term evangelical or the latter include anything of note regarding African Americans.<\/span><\/div>\n
Recently some religious historians have redressed some aspects of this lacuna in the scholarship.\u00a0 Building upon the historiographical approach developed by the first wave of historians of Southern religion such as Sam Hill and Donald Mathews, they have considered race as a primary interpretive lens for understanding evangelical history.\u00a0 Since cultural constructions of race shaped the religious beliefs and social interactions of American evangelicals, this line of historical inquiry proved fruitful.\u00a0 Books such as Stephen Miller\u2019s\u00a0Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South<\/a><\/em>\u00a0have enriched our understanding of evangelicalism.\u00a0 Even so, such efforts deal with questions of race in terms of how they affected a predominantly\u00a0white<\/em>\u00a0evangelicalism.<\/span><\/div>\n
Which brings the discussion back to the question at hand: where are the studies of twentieth-century black evangelicalism?\u00a0 Two historical realities have contributed to the paucity of works on twentieth-century African American evangelicalism.\u00a0 The first relates to the history of evangelicalism as a movement.\u00a0 The second relates to the manner in which the struggle for full equality emerged as the centerpiece of African American history in the twentieth century.<\/span><\/div>\n
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John Fea\u2019s recent Anxious Bench post, \u201cWhere Are the Studies of Twentieth-Century Black Evangelicalism?\u201d raised an excellent question, one that confronted me over a decade ago as a graduate student in\u00a0Dennis Dickerson\u2019s Religion and the Civil Rights seminar.\u00a0 At that time, works on twentieth-century African American religious history and the \u201cblack church\u201d were readily available.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Quandary of African American Evangelicalism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"John Fea\u2019s recent Anxious Bench post, \u201cWhere Are the Studies of Twentieth-Century Black Evangelicalism?\u201d raised an 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