The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel

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The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to invite what a “new abolition” will require in American society. It become the most important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of excluded voices and providing the intellectual underpinnings of the civil rights movement. This tradition has been seriously lost sight of, in spite of its immense legacy.
 
On this groundbreaking work, Gary Dorrien describes the early history of the black social gospel from its nineteenth-century founding to its close association within the twentieth century with W. E. B. Du Bois. He offers a new viewpoint on up to date Christianity and the civil rights era by delineating the tradition of social justice theology and activism that led to Martin Luther King Jr.

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