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Dec 27, - White Christian American in the s ended as people abandoned By Robert P. Jones, CEO and founder, Public Religion Research.
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Humphreys noted that incarnation is especially difficult for those in brown bodies like his. Issues of racial injustice, such as systemic poverty and continued segregation in housing and education, plagued many members of the congregation. Their skin color sometimes led even other people of color to make assumptions. From her folding chair in the third row, Harper clapped vigorously. When Humphreys hit a particularly inspired line of his sermon, she nodded with fierce encouragement.
Harper has known Humphreys for ten years and said she was proud of his development as a preacher. After church, I sat with Humphreys and Harper at a chic Italian restaurant nearby—a harbinger of gentrification.
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Over a brunch of feta-and-spinach omelettes, they explained that the evangelical movement in America had always been rooted in a larger call to justice. During the religious revivals that swept Europe and the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, being born again involved a newfound commitment to fighting societal ills, like slavery, poverty, and labor exploitation.
But, in the nineteen-twenties, a group of Christians who called themselves fundamentalists began to worry about the rise of science and secularism in the modern world, and began rejecting secular concerns in favor of strict readings of the Bible and an emphasis on a personal relationship with God. In the nineteen-fifties, Billy Graham reclaimed and popularized evangelicalism. His crusades drew tens of thousands of people. In opposition to the fundamentalists, Graham invited his followers to engage in the world, and he challenged some of the long-standing racism within the church, and America itself, by preaching alongside Martin Luther King, Jr.
Still, as Harper and others argue, racism persisted among evangelicals and fuelled the rise of the religious right. Eventually, Weyrich hit on school desegregation. Bob Jones University, a traditionally all-white evangelical university in Greenville, South Carolina, had recently lost its tax-exempt status for trying to exclude students of color. Religious leaders, including the televangelist Jerry Falwell, rallied behind the university, and Weyrich helped to mobilize conservatives to his cause. In , the case went to the Supreme Court, which ruled against Bob Jones.
But the ruling galvanized members of the religious right, who came to see themselves as embattled soldiers in a fight for religious freedom. Although, more recently, the evangelical push for conservatives to dominate secular politics has been cast as a fight over abortion, Harper sees this as a form of whitewashing. Board of Education.
As Harper and Humphreys saw it, the fundamentalist emphasis on individualism had allowed many white believers to distance themselves from the needs of their community. Since the nineteen-forties, black evangelicals had been actively fighting for equality within the church. In the sixties, John M.
In , Perkins was one of the first signatories to the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Concern, a commitment to reject the growing influence of racism, militarism, gender roles, and economic materialism in Christian communities. Economic Systems. Politics Power and Violence. Spirituality Religion and the Supernatural. The Arts. Processes of Change. Photo Credits. Sex Marriage and Family. Kinship and Descent.
Direitos autorais. In the south, the explosion of evangelical churches coincided with a wave of racial reaction in the wake of the civil rights movement. After being a Democratic stronghold, the south became solidly Republican beginning in the early s. Leaders of the Christian right became figures of national influence, and especially in the Bush years, public policy was directed to benefit them.
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That is, especially among the young, there are proportionally fewer Christians. If trends continue, that means that there will be fewer and fewer Christians.
While two-thirds of seniors are white Christians, only around a quarter of people are. To varying degrees, this has affected almost every Christian denomination — and nearly four in 10 young Americans have no religious affiliation at all. This reflects the second big driver of white Christian decline: both America and its family of faiths are becoming less white.
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Due mostly to Asian and Hispanic immigration, and the consolidation of already established immigrant populations, white people will be a minority by This will be true of unders as soon as The Catholic church provides a stark illustration. In the s, white people outnumbered non-white people in Catholic churches by a to-one margin. While the most ingrained narratives of North American history depict it as a haven for minority sects, this varied considerably by colony.
This frequently led to violence. In , a mob burned an Ursuline convent near Boston. Two years later, their presidential candidate, Millard Fillmore, got a fifth of the vote. Early Mormon history was marked by a series of violent attacks by non-Mormons, and subsequent escapes to new gathering places.
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