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From reconciliation to revolution [electronic resource] :how the Student Interracial Ministry took up the cause of civil rights / David P. Cline.

By: Cline, David P, 1969- [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781469630458; 1469630451.Subject(s): Student Interracial Ministry | Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- 20th century | Civil rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- 20th century | Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century | African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century | United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 323.1196/0730904 Online resources: Full text available:
Contents:
Preface: a tale of two gatherings -- "So that none shall be afraid": establishing and building the Student Interracial Ministry, 1960-1961 -- To be both prophet and pastor: crossing racial lines in pulpits and public spaces, 1961-1962 -- "These walls will shake": new forms of ministry for changing times, 1962-1965 -- Into the heart of the beast: ministry in the fields and towns of Southwest Georgia, 1965-1968 -- Seminarians in the secular city: embracing urban ministry, 1965-1970 -- Seminaries in the storm: theological education and the collapse of SIM, 1967-1968.
Summary: "Conceived at the same conference that produced the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Student Interracial Ministry (SIM) was a national organization devoted to dismantling Jim Crow while simultaneously advancing American churches' approach to race. In this book, David Cline details how, between the founding of SIM in 1960 and its dissolution at the end of the decade, the seminary students who created and ran the organization influenced hundreds of thousands of community members through its various racial reconciliation and economic justice projects"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: a tale of two gatherings -- "So that none shall be afraid": establishing and building the Student Interracial Ministry, 1960-1961 -- To be both prophet and pastor: crossing racial lines in pulpits and public spaces, 1961-1962 -- "These walls will shake": new forms of ministry for changing times, 1962-1965 -- Into the heart of the beast: ministry in the fields and towns of Southwest Georgia, 1965-1968 -- Seminarians in the secular city: embracing urban ministry, 1965-1970 -- Seminaries in the storm: theological education and the collapse of SIM, 1967-1968.

"Conceived at the same conference that produced the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Student Interracial Ministry (SIM) was a national organization devoted to dismantling Jim Crow while simultaneously advancing American churches' approach to race. In this book, David Cline details how, between the founding of SIM in 1960 and its dissolution at the end of the decade, the seminary students who created and ran the organization influenced hundreds of thousands of community members through its various racial reconciliation and economic justice projects"-- Provided by publisher.

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