Alan Scot Willis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Scot Willis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan Scot |
| FAMILY NAME | Willis |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIS A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Church-State Entanglements in Southern Baptist Post-War Juvenile Delinquency Programs
In 1947, Travis Freeman Epes of Richmond, Virginia, called on Southern Baptists to fight the growing epidemic of juvenile delinquency. Writing to prominent seminary professor J. B. Weatherspoon, Epes claimed “there will be money and workers IN ABUNDANCE if our top-ranking church leaders will promote a general plan in all churches on the basis of ‘Each Person Doing Some Church Work’.”1 Across the later 1940s and 1950s, Southern Baptists acted. The…
Two Weeks Every Summer: Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America
Abusing Hugh Davis: Determining the Crime in a Seventeenth-Century American Morality Case
Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
W. Paul Reeve offers an intriguing examination of the confluence of racial and religious identity in Religion of a Different Color. Mormonism's struggle with racial inclusiveness allows Reeve to illuminate the meaning of whiteness in a number of unique ways. He concludes that Mormons succeeded in being deemed “white” by American society only at the expense of their earlier racial inclusiveness. Their achievement also came just as white supremacy …
The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel by Gary Dorrien
Reviewed by: The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel by Gary Dorrien Alan Scot Willis Gary Dorrien. The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel. New Haven: Yale UP, 2015. 672pp. $45.00. Gary Dorrien offers an extensive and exhaustively researched investigation into the ideas and institutions of the early black social gospel in The New Abolition. For Dorrien, these early black social gospelers could tole…
Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975
Journal Article Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945–1975 Get access Carolyn Renée Dupont. (New York: New York University Press, 2013. xiv, 290 pp. $55.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 649–650, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau408 Published: 01 September 2014
Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century
Book Review| April 01 2013 Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century. By Derek Chang. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 248 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Alan Scot Willis Alan Scot Willis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Am…
Allan W. Austin. Quaker Brotherhood: Interracial Activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950
Allan W. Austin offers an institutional history of the American Friends Service Committee's (AFSC) racial activism. He argues that, by 1950, Quakers in the AFSC had “developed an indirect, Friendly approach to interracial relations that while still working to correct individual ignorance now saw the need to reform society as well” (p. 16). Underlying that change was the Quakers' effort to “connect their faith and practice in a rapidly changing so…
All According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945-1970
Religion in the Contemporary South: Changes, Continuities, and Contexts
From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo
More than thirty years after the murder of Viola Liuzzo by the Ku Klux Klan, she remains an enigma. some saw her as a dedicated civil rights worker, others as a troubled housewife. Some thought she was a victim of random violence and government conspiracy, while others thought she was an unfit mother who got what she deserved. From Selma to Sorrow is the first full-length biography of the only white woman honored at the Civil Rights Memorial in M…
From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo
More than thirty years after the murder of Viola Liuzzo by the Ku Klux Klan, she remains an enigma. some saw her as a dedicated civil rights worker, others as a troubled housewife. Some thought she was a victim of random violence and government conspiracy, while others thought she was an unfit mother who got what she deserved. From Selma to Sorrow is the first full-length biography of the only white woman honored at the Civil Rights Memorial in M…
All According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945-1970
Religion in the Contemporary South: Changes, Continuities, and Contexts
Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century
Book Review| April 01 2013 Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century. By Derek Chang. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 248 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Alan Scot Willis Alan Scot Willis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Am…
Allan W. Austin. Quaker Brotherhood: Interracial Activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950
Allan W. Austin offers an institutional history of the American Friends Service Committee's (AFSC) racial activism. He argues that, by 1950, Quakers in the AFSC had “developed an indirect, Friendly approach to interracial relations that while still working to correct individual ignorance now saw the need to reform society as well” (p. 16). Underlying that change was the Quakers' effort to “connect their faith and practice in a rapidly changing so…
Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975
Journal Article Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945–1975 Get access Carolyn Renée Dupont. (New York: New York University Press, 2013. xiv, 290 pp. $55.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 649–650, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau408 Published: 01 September 2014
The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel by Gary Dorrien
Reviewed by: The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel by Gary Dorrien Alan Scot Willis Gary Dorrien. The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel. New Haven: Yale UP, 2015. 672pp. $45.00. Gary Dorrien offers an extensive and exhaustively researched investigation into the ideas and institutions of the early black social gospel in The New Abolition. For Dorrien, these early black social gospelers could tole…
Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
W. Paul Reeve offers an intriguing examination of the confluence of racial and religious identity in Religion of a Different Color. Mormonism's struggle with racial inclusiveness allows Reeve to illuminate the meaning of whiteness in a number of unique ways. He concludes that Mormons succeeded in being deemed “white” by American society only at the expense of their earlier racial inclusiveness. Their achievement also came just as white supremacy …
Abusing Hugh Davis: Determining the Crime in a Seventeenth-Century American Morality Case
Two Weeks Every Summer: Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America
Church-State Entanglements in Southern Baptist Post-War Juvenile Delinquency Programs
In 1947, Travis Freeman Epes of Richmond, Virginia, called on Southern Baptists to fight the growing epidemic of juvenile delinquency. Writing to prominent seminary professor J. B. Weatherspoon, Epes claimed “there will be money and workers IN ABUNDANCE if our top-ranking church leaders will promote a general plan in all churches on the basis of ‘Each Person Doing Some Church Work’.”1 Across the later 1940s and 1950s, Southern Baptists acted. The…
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