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“robert a wortham”

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  • Handbook of Early Christianity

    Social Science Approaches

    by David G. Horrell, Carolyn Osiek, Steven L. Bridge, Robert A. Wortham, Ritva H. Williams, Ernst R. Wendland, Peter Staples, Frederick Bird, Peter Richardson, Donald A. Nielsen, Howard Clark Kee, Jack T.Sanders, Philip A. Harland, John W. Marshall, Harold Remus, Warren Carter, Nicola Denzey, Dimitris J. Kyrtatas, David A. Fiensy, Nicholas H. Taylor, Richard K. Fenn, Russell Martin ...
    The Christian movement emerged amidst complex social tensions, power politics, ethnic diversity, economic stress, and cultural changes. Both biblical scholars and social scientists find that a social scientific study of early Christian phenomena yields fascinating results. However, biblical scholars are sometimes unaware of the breadth of the useful social scientific concepts and techniques, and ... Read more

    $160.99 USD

  • W. E. B. Du Bois

    Pioneer American Sociologist

    by Robert A. Wortham ...
    W. E. B. Du Bois: Pioneer American Sociologist highlights the contributions of W. E. B. Du Bois on the field of sociology.Robert A. Wortham shines a light on Du Bois's role in shaping the scientific scope of the sociological perspective through his pioneering contributions in the areas of demography, urban and rural sociology, Southern Black Belt studies, and religion and society. This book ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • W. E. B. Du Bois and the Sociology of the Black Church and Religion, 1897–1914

    Edited by Robert A. Wortham ...
    W. E. B. Du Bois is the founding figure of the sociological study of the Black Church. His discussion of the six functions of Philadelphia’s Black Church in The Philadelphia Negro (1899) represented an early example of a “functional analysis” of a religious group. In The Negro Church (1903), he integrated the findings from religious census data, denominational statistics, small area surveys, ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The Sociological Souls of Black Folk

    Essays by W. E. B. Du Bois

    by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, Robert A. Wortham ...
    The Souls of Black Folk is W.E.B. Du Bois' most famous work. While the work is often viewed as a classic in African American literature and the history of the African American experience, the sociological significance of the work has been understated. In his initial discussions with the book's original publisher, Du Bois desired to prepare a volume that would showcase his ongoing sociological work ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Morals and Manners among Negro Americans

    by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, Augustus Dill ...
    Morals and Manners among Negro Americans is the sequel to W.E.B. Du Bois' The Negro Church. This 1914 study is the last Atlanta University Conference volume to be edited or coedited by Du Bois and is based on a national survey addressing the then current state of morals and manners within the African American community. A case study of the Black Church in Atlanta and an extensive discussion of ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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  • The Negro Problem

    by Booker T. Washington ...
    * Illustrated* Author Biography* Interactive Table of ContentsThe Negro ProblemHere are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view. These essays show us how far race relations have progressed, and sadly how far we have yet to go. Included are "Industrial Education for the Negro" by Booker ... Read more

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  • The Ruling Race

    by James Oakes ...
    This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Philadelphia Negro (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Invisible Sovereign

    Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction

    by Mark G. Schmeller ...
    Series series New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
    This history of early American political thought examines the emergence, evolution, and manipulation of public opinion.In the early American republic, the concept of public opinion was a recent—and ambiguous—invention. While appearing to promise a new style of democratic politics, the concept was also invoked to limit self-rule, cement traditional prejudices, stall deliberation, and marginalize ... Read more

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  • Redeeming the Great Emancipator

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    Series Book 15 - The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
    The larger-than-life image Abraham Lincoln projects across the screen of American history owes much to his role as the Great Emancipator during the Civil War. Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln’s identity is precisely the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. In a vigorous defense of America’s sixteenth president, award-winning historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo refutes ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

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  • The Transformation of American Abolitionism

    Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic

    by Richard S. Newman ...
    Most accounts date the birth of American abolitionism to 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his radical antislavery newspaper, The Liberator. In fact, however, the abolition movement had been born with the American Republic. In the decades following the Revolution, abolitionists worked steadily to eliminate slavery and racial injustice, and their tactics and strategies constantly ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Rope and Faggot

    A Biography of Judge Lynch

    by Walter White ...
    Series series African American Intellectual Heritage
    In 1926, Walter White, assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke the story of a horrific lynching in Aiken, South Carolina, in which three African Americans were murdered while more than one thousand spectators watched. Because of his light complexion, blonde hair, and blue eyes, White, an African American, was able to investigate first-hand more ... Read more

    $26.59 USD