Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• SWARTZ, DAVID R.

Titel

Christ of the American Road: E. Stanley Jones, India, and Civil Rights

Ist Teil von

• Journal of American studies, 2017-11, Vol.51 (4), p.1117-1138

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article, which emphasizes the importance of transnational history, tracks the influence of E. Stanley Jones, a missionary to India in the early twentieth century, on evangelicals in the United States. It contends that global encounters pushed Jones to hold integrated ashrams, conduct evangelistic crusades, and participate in the Congress on Racial Equality. During his time abroad, he discovered that racial segregation at home hurt the causes of missions and democracy abroad. Using this Cold War logic, Jones in turn provoked American evangelicals to consider more fully questions of racial inequality.