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Author: Joseph T. Reiff (Professor of Religion and Chair of Religion Department, Professor of Religion and Chair of Religion Department, Emory and Henry College)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 15.70cm
Weight: 0.699kg
ISBN: 9780190246815
ISBN 10: 0190246812
Pages: 410
Publication Date: 10 December 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
A nuanced history [The] narrative moves effortlessly between an individual and institutional focus, a great strength of the book. Readers will walk away understanding the issues facing the Methodist Church in the 1960s, while simultaneously seeing how individuals fit into that larger picture. --Journal of Southern Religion Reiff tells [the Born of Conviction] story fully and clearly. The signers of this statement and their fate deserve the broad audience that this book will rightly command. --The Clarion-Ledger Every historical era or period, especially times of social distress, await books that guide us to a safer and better shore. Born of Conviction is a book for our time. Its pages offer portrayals of the human capacity for social evil and for heroic moral leadership. We encounter an America divided along the color line and meet white clergy and laypeople who risked Christian discipleship through words and deeds that can instruct, inspire, and invite today. As we find ourselves again on the long road to authentic democracy, this book should be required for leaders and laypeople, who will learn much from our predecessors. --Robert Michael Franklin, President Emeritus, Morehouse College Through meticulous research and crisp, engaging narrative, Born of Conviction: White Methodists and Mississippi's Closed Society accomplishes the exceedingly difficult task of telling a new and broadly significant story in the American Civil Rights Movement: the crisis of congregational and denominational identity in the wake of enormous social change. Joseph Reiff has made an enormously valuable contribution to our understanding of the movement, painstakingly reconstructing a largely forgotten chapter in the Southern 'church struggle' that is as inspiring as it is heartbreaking. --Charles Marsh, Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia This masterful work tells a crucial and overlooked story from some of the worst days of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. Anger among whites was intense in January 1963 when twenty-eight white Mississippi Methodist pastors called for racial tolerance. Reiff tells a captivating social, cultural, and religious story with exhaustive and impeccable scholarship, revealing the deeper narrative beyond the pastors' statement and its aftermath. --Lovett H. Weems, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Church Leadership, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC
this high-quality study is a significant addition to the historiography of the civil rights era. * James Findlay, Journal of American History * Born of Conviction: White Methodists and Mississippi's Closed Society is a very impressive and important contribution to our evolving understanding of how religion made the Civil Rights Movement move. In telling this story and his tireless pursuit of these brave clergy, Reiff has excavated a fascinating fissure in the cracks of Mississippi's closed society. * Davis W. Houck, Church History *
Every historical era or period, especially times of social distress, await books that guide us to a safer and better shore. Born of Conviction is a book for our time. Its pages offer portrayals of the human capacity for social evil and for heroic moral leadership. We encounter an America divided along the color line and meet white clergy and laypeople who risked Christian discipleship through words and deeds that can instruct, inspire, and invite today. As we find ourselves again on the long road to authentic democracy, this book should be required for leaders and laypeople, who will learn much from our predecessors. --Robert Michael Franklin, President Emeritus, Morehouse College Through meticulous research and crisp, engaging narrative, Born of Conviction: White Methodists and Mississippi's Closed Society accomplishes the exceedingly difficult task of telling a new and broadly significant story in the American Civil Rights Movement: the crisis of congregational and denominational identity in the wake of enormous social change. Joseph Reiff has made an enormously valuable contribution to our understanding of the movement, painstakingly reconstructing a largely forgotten chapter in the Southern 'church struggle' that is as inspiring as it is heartbreaking. --Charles Marsh, Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia This masterful work tells a crucial and overlooked story from some of the worst days of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. Anger among whites was intense in January 1963 when twenty-eight white Mississippi Methodist pastors called for racial tolerance. Reiff tells a captivating social, cultural, and religious story with exhaustive and impeccable scholarship, revealing the deeper narrative beyond the pastors' statement and its aftermath. --Lovett H. Weems, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Church Leadership, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC
Author Information
Joseph T. Reiff grew up in Mississippi and graduated from Millsaps College and Emory University's Candler School of Theology. From 1980-1985, he served as a United Methodist pastor in the Mississippi Conference, and then returned to Emory to complete a Ph.D. He is currently Professor of Religion and Chair of the Religion Department at Emory & Henry College.
