Matthew J Cressler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1373014 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew J Cressler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Cressler |
| SIGNATURE | CRESSLER M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Charleston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Centering Black Catholic Religio-Racial Identity, Revealing White Catholicism
In New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration, Judith Weisenfeld presents numerous instances when members of religio-racial movements contested the racial classificatory system provided by the federal government and confronted state administrators with their own alternative religio-racial identities. For Weisenfeld, these sorts of exchanges highlight, first and foremost, Black agency in religio-race making. …
Real Good and Sincere Catholics: White Catholicism and Massive Resistance to Desegregation in Chicago, 1965-1968
Although the civil rights movement has long been framed as a pivotal turning point in twentieth-century U.S. religious history, comparatively little attention has been directed to the role of religion in what has been termed "the long segregation movement." Likewise, Catholic historians tend to emphasize the exceptional few priests, sisters, and lay people committed to interracial justice over and against the majority of white Catholics who eithe…
Black Women's Christian Activism: Seeking Social Justice in a Northern Suburb
Betty Livingston Adams documents the intrepid leadership of the black Christian women instrumental in organizing resistance to the increasing entrenchment of segregation in the northern suburb of Summit, New Jersey, in the first half of the twentieth century. Adams sets out to illustrate the ways black women's “faith and willingness to assume responsibility mattered in the churches they established, the institutions they built, and the communitie…
Black Catholicism
This roundtable features six scholarly assessments of the historical and theoretical challenges that emerge when we consider the participation of African and African-descended peoples in the Catholic tradition. The subject of Black Catholicism is garnering new attention from researchers for several reasons. Although the presence of Christianity in West-Central Africa is usually associated with European conquest and colonialism, it is instructive …
The look of catholics portrayals in popular culture from the great depression to the cold war Smith, Anthony Burke
Centering Black Catholic Religio-Racial Identity, Revealing White Catholicism
In New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration, Judith Weisenfeld presents numerous instances when members of religio-racial movements contested the racial classificatory system provided by the federal government and confronted state administrators with their own alternative religio-racial identities. For Weisenfeld, these sorts of exchanges highlight, first and foremost, Black agency in religio-race making. …
Black Catholicism
This roundtable features six scholarly assessments of the historical and theoretical challenges that emerge when we consider the participation of African and African-descended peoples in the Catholic tradition. The subject of Black Catholicism is garnering new attention from researchers for several reasons. Although the presence of Christianity in West-Central Africa is usually associated with European conquest and colonialism, it is instructive …
Real Good and Sincere Catholics: White Catholicism and Massive Resistance to Desegregation in Chicago, 1965-1968
Although the civil rights movement has long been framed as a pivotal turning point in twentieth-century U.S. religious history, comparatively little attention has been directed to the role of religion in what has been termed "the long segregation movement." Likewise, Catholic historians tend to emphasize the exceptional few priests, sisters, and lay people committed to interracial justice over and against the majority of white Catholics who eithe…
The look of catholics portrayals in popular culture from the great depression to the cold war Smith, Anthony Burke
Black Catholicism
This roundtable features six scholarly assessments of the historical and theoretical challenges that emerge when we consider the participation of African and African-descended peoples in the Catholic tradition. The subject of Black Catholicism is garnering new attention from researchers for several reasons. Although the presence of Christianity in West-Central Africa is usually associated with European conquest and colonialism, it is instructive …
Black Women's Christian Activism: Seeking Social Justice in a Northern Suburb
Betty Livingston Adams documents the intrepid leadership of the black Christian women instrumental in organizing resistance to the increasing entrenchment of segregation in the northern suburb of Summit, New Jersey, in the first half of the twentieth century. Adams sets out to illustrate the ways black women's “faith and willingness to assume responsibility mattered in the churches they established, the institutions they built, and the communitie…
Centering Black Catholic Religio-Racial Identity, Revealing White Catholicism
In New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration, Judith Weisenfeld presents numerous instances when members of religio-racial movements contested the racial classificatory system provided by the federal government and confronted state administrators with their own alternative religio-racial identities. For Weisenfeld, these sorts of exchanges highlight, first and foremost, Black agency in religio-race making. …
Real Good and Sincere Catholics: White Catholicism and Massive Resistance to Desegregation in Chicago, 1965-1968
Although the civil rights movement has long been framed as a pivotal turning point in twentieth-century U.S. religious history, comparatively little attention has been directed to the role of religion in what has been termed "the long segregation movement." Likewise, Catholic historians tend to emphasize the exceptional few priests, sisters, and lay people committed to interracial justice over and against the majority of white Catholics who eithe…
Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)