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by Edward Blum
R3 Contributor <\/p>\n

By drawing attention to the Time list of \u201cinfluential\u201d evangelicals and John Turner\u2019s essay<\/a>, I\u2019m not trying to say that evangelical scholarship is racist. I\u2019m also not trying to say that African Americans should want to be identified as \u201cevangelical\u201d or necessarily included in that camp. I\u2019m also not saying that we all need to have \u201cadditive\u201d history where we merely add a person of color or a woman to make our stories better (would adding women to Kevin Schultz\u2019s book improve it? I\u2019m not so sure).<\/p>\n

What I am saying is that when it comes to \u201cevangelicalism\u201d and race, we cannot divorce the work that race did. My first book was based on a simple and perhaps naive graduate student question: when Dwight Moody set the North ablaze with the revivals of 1876 and 1877, why didn\u2019t he have anything to say about racial justice in the South? Why didn\u2019t Marsden or Noll or hardly else bring up that these were years of terrible racial and sectional strife? (Noll is the great example of a scholar who has grown so richly over time and now takes race quite seriously; but he did not in Scandal!) That led me to an unbelievable discord of rhetoric versus reality in post-Civil War evangelicalism that showed how folks like Moody subtly created a white supremacist morality that undermined the gains and spirit of radical Reconstruction. But this \u201cevangelical\u201d history rarely gets told.
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