Christianizing the Klan
Alma White, Branford Clarke, and the Art of Religious Intolerance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3144329 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lynn S Neal (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 350-378 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009640709000523 |
| OpenAlex | W2109913970 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 27 |
According to the biblical book of Daniel chapter 3, King Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled the Babylonian Empire where the Jews lived in exile, commissioned the building of a ninety-foot golden image and commanded the people to worship it. Refusal to comply meant one's death in a fiery furnace. While most obeyed the king's dictate, the story recounts how Shadrach, Meschach, and Abednego, Jews who worked for the king, refused to worship the image and remained loyal to their God. In response, the king bade his men to stoke the furnace and burn the defiant rebels. To the king's amazement, the trio appeared unscathed amid the red-hot flames, and he glimpsed a mysterious fourth figure with them. Seeing this, the king called the men to come out of the furnace and they emerged unharmed, protected, according to the text, by the fourth figure, an angel. The story depicts Shadrach, Meschach, and Abednego as heroes who withstood the forces of evil and witnessed the power of their God. It speaks to the fidelity of these men and to the intolerant nature of Nebuchadnezzar's faith. While this passage and its lessons may be familiar to many, in the 1920s they gained additional meanings that provide us with important insights into the workings of religious intolerance in the United States
Art · Faith · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Theology · Victory · White (mutation) · Worship · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
The fiery cross
Strangers in the Land Patterns of American Nativism 1800-1925
The American Catholic experience
The Sacred Gaze
Fundamentalism and American Culture
Hooded Empire
Hooded Americanism
Women of the Klan
Women Illustrators of the Golden Age of American Illustration
Modern Art and Society
An American Bible
Hooded Empire
Pictures Have Now Become a Necessity
The American Catholic Experience
Sources and Nature of Intolerance in the 1920s
Protestants and Pictures
The Cartoon as a Historical Source
Anti-semitism in American caricature
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |