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One in Christ: Chicago Catholics and the Quest for Interracial Justice

Autor Karen J. Johnson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 sep 2018

Găsim în One in Christ o analiză riguroasă a intersecției dintre istoria religioasă, sociologia urbană și mișcările pentru drepturi civile din Statele Unite. Suntem de părere că forța acestui volum rezidă în abordarea interdisciplinară, care demonstrează că nu putem separa dinamica rasială din nordul Americii de contextul ecleziastic. Karen J. Johnson mută focalizarea de la figurile emblematice ale clerului din anii '60 către activismul laicilor din Chicago, explorând modul în care credința catolică a fost utilizată atât pentru a menține ierarhiile rasiale, cât și pentru a le demonta.

Textul propune o perspectivă „de jos în sus”, documentând eforturile bărbaților și femeilor care au militat pentru ceea ce numeau „dreptate interracială”. Această viziune nu era doar politică, ci profund teologică, bazată pe conceptul Corpului Mistic al lui Hristos. Credem că această abordare schimbă narativul obișnuit despre segregare, arătând cum Chicago a servit drept laborator pentru experimente sociale care au precedat marile proteste naționale. Cartea completează perspectiva oferită de Social Justice from Outside the Walls, adăugând o analiză specifică asupra modului în care barierele parohiale urbane au fost forțate de colaborarea dintre catolicii de culoare și partenerii lor albi, în timp ce lucrarea lui Mulhearn se concentrează pe contextul din Memphis.

În contextul operei autorului, One in Christ se aliniază preocupărilor din Understanding and Teaching Religion in US History, unde religia este prezentată ca un element indispensabil pentru înțelegerea temelor de rasă și clasă. Dacă în lucrările anterioare accentul cădea pe receptarea istorică a unor figuri precum C.S. Lewis, aici Johnson aplică aceleași metode de cercetare istorică asupra structurilor sociale și religioase din Chicago. Este un studiu dens, documentat, care refuză simplificările, oferind o imagine nuanțată a modului în care practicile catolice s-au transformat prin activismul cotidian.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190618971
ISBN-10: 0190618973
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 236 x 160 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților interesați de istoria religiilor și de sociologie urbană. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care laicii, nu doar liderii religioși, au modelat mișcarea pentru drepturi civile. Este o resursă esențială pentru a înțelege cum credința poate deveni un motor al schimbării sociale în medii urbane segregate, oferind un studiu de caz aplicat pe arhiepiscopia din Chicago.


Despre autor

Karen J. Johnson este istoric și cercetător preocupat de intersecția dintre religie și istoria socială a Statelor Unite. Contribuțiile sale academice, inclusiv participarea la volume colective precum cele coordonate de Mark A. Noll, explorează modul în care credințele religioase influențează dinamica politică și rasială. Prin lucrarea de față, publicată de Oxford University Press, Johnson se afirmă ca o voce importantă în studiul catolicismului american, aducând la lumină rolul crucial al laicilor în transformarea instituțiilor religioase și a comunităților urbane în secolul XX.


Descriere

Today, the images of Catholic priests and nuns marching in 1960s civil rights protests are iconic. Their cassocks and habits clothed the movement in sacred garments. But by the time of those protests Catholic Civil Rights activism already had a long history, one in which the religious leadership of the Church played, at best, a supporting role. Instead, it was laypeople, first African Americans and then, as they found white partners, black and white Catholicsworking together, who shaped the movement regular people who, in self-consciously Catholic ways, devoted their time, energy, and prayers to what they called "interracial justice," a vision of economic, social, religious, and civil equality.Karen J. Johnson tells the story of Catholic interracial activism from the bottom up through the lives of a group of women and men in Chicago who struggled with one another, their Church, and their city to try to live their Catholic faith in a new, and what they thought was more complete and true, way. Black activists found a handful of white laypeople, some of whom later became priests, who believed in their vision of a universal church in the segregated city. Together, they began to fight forinterracial justice, all while knitted together in sometimes-contentious friendship as members of the Mystical Body of Christ. In the end, not only had Catholic activists lived out their faith as active participants in the long civil rights movement and learned how to cooperate, and indeed love,across racial lines, but they had changed the practice of Catholicism. They broke down the hierarchy that placed priests above the laity and crossed the parish boundaries that defined urban Catholicism.Chicago was a vital laboratory in what became a national story. One in Christ traces the development of Catholic interracial activism, revealing the ways religion and race combined both to enforce racial hierarchies and to tear them down, and demonstrating that we cannot understand race and civil rights in the North without accounting for religion.


Recenzii

A tour de force. One in Christ takes us into the streets and parishes of Catholic Chicago, richly exploring the much understudied work of the laityparticularly womenin shaping, defining, and acting for interracial unity and justice. In a delightfully engaging text, Johnson draws us into the messiness of human interaction for change and resistance during the long civil rights movement of the 1930s to the 1960s. Her findings and interpretations have deepmeaning for our current times. A must read for anyone wanting to understand civil rights and racial change.
Johnson's compelling book succeeds in reconstructing a multilayered story of the energetic efforts of black and white Catholics to become one in Christ.
This book is an important contribution to several overlapping fields: Catholic history, urban history, the civil rights movement, and the history of Chicago. In light of Johnson's findings, many new questions can be raised about Catholics, race, and urban life in the 20th century. The civil rights movement is far richer and theologically deeper than is usually understood ... One in Christ proves itself an important intervention that will have lasting effects on modern American history.
One in Christ is a valuable history. Johnson offers important insights about the place that Catholicism and Catholics had in shaping and redressing American culture and life, particularly with regards to race. The strength of her study is the manner in which she reveals and interprets the role that Catholics played in helping to craft communities of ecumenical and interreligious white allies for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Karen J. Johnson's One in Christ has it all: white versus black and white with black; Catholic versus Protestant and Catholic with Protestant; Catholic versus Catholic and Catholic with Catholic. Widely researched, analyzed with precision, and focused on the magical messiness of everyday life, this book is necessary reading for anyone interested in race, religion, and justice in the past and present.
Karen J. Johnson has made a remarkable contribution to scholarship on interracial civil rights activism in the Northern United States. One in Christ is balanced in its attention to clergy and laity, and innovative in its intersectional placement of religion, race, gender, sexuality, class, and place at the heart of its analysis. Rigorous and passionate in its research and presentation, One in Christ will be appreciated as a cornerstone achievement in the history of the Catholic interracial justice movement.
With warmheartedness and clarity, Karen J. Johnson explores conundrums about race and morality in the United States in One in Christ: Chicago Catholics and the Quest for Interracial Justice.

Notă biografică

Karen Johnson is Associate Professor of History at Wheaton College in Illinois. She studies the intersection of religion and race in American history, teaches classes on the civil rights movement, race, and urban and suburban history, and works with future history teachers.