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Churches, Blackness, and Contested MulticulturalismWilliam Stuart Nelson and the Interfaith Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism: William Stuart Nelson and the Interfaith... [William Stuart Nelson (1895–1977), dean of the School of Religion and later vice president of Howard University, became a preeminent scholar of Gandhian satyagraha. He interacted with the Indian leader during a sabbatical on the Asian subcontinent in 1946–1947. Since the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) sponsored him, he studied Quaker pacifism and Gandhian nonviolence as strategic possibilities for deployment in the nascent American civil rights movement. Moreover, these explorations persuaded him that the principles of nonviolence and peace were embedded in the sacred texts of the world’s great religions.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Churches, Blackness, and Contested MulticulturalismWilliam Stuart Nelson and the Interfaith Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

Part of the Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice Book Series
Editors: Smith, R. Drew; Ackah, William; Reddie, Anthony G.
Dickerson, Dennis C.
Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism — Nov 5, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
ISBN
978-1-349-48934-3
Pages
57 –72
DOI
10.1057/9781137386380_5
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Abstract

[William Stuart Nelson (1895–1977), dean of the School of Religion and later vice president of Howard University, became a preeminent scholar of Gandhian satyagraha. He interacted with the Indian leader during a sabbatical on the Asian subcontinent in 1946–1947. Since the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) sponsored him, he studied Quaker pacifism and Gandhian nonviolence as strategic possibilities for deployment in the nascent American civil rights movement. Moreover, these explorations persuaded him that the principles of nonviolence and peace were embedded in the sacred texts of the world’s great religions.]

Published: Nov 5, 2015

Keywords: Civil Disobedience; Sacred Text; Seminary Student; Divinity School; Asian Subcontinent

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