Today I am interviewing Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews about her new book Doctrine and Race: African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism Between the Wars. Dr. Mathews is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Mary Washington:
In the early twentieth century, white Protestants engaged in a theological war known as the “Fundamentalist-Modernist conflict. “ Instead of clearly aligning with either faction, however, you say that African Americans “created their own traditionalist conservative evangelicalism.” What were the chief characteristics of that kind of black evangelical Christianity?
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