Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

In a major revision of accepted wisdom, this book, originally published by UNC Press in 1991, demonstrates that American social Christianity played an important

The award–winning author of The New Abolition continues his history of black social gospel with this study of its influence on the Civil Rights movement. The

After signal victories of the civil rights movement in the sixties, recent events have shown that the divide between black and white Americans remains alarmingl

The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a “new abolition” would require in American society. It became an important tr

The contributors explore how the theological tradition of the Social Gospel, born within the social and cultural dislocations of late 19th-century America, rela