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W. E. B. du Bois
Toward Agnosticism, 1868-1934- Authors:
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- 2008
Summary
Brian L. Johnson's remarkable biography of W.E.B. Du Bois describes the evolution of religious views from Du Bois's birth until his resignation as editor of Crisis magazine in 1934. W.E.B. Du Bois: Toward Agnosticism, 1868-1934 traces Du Bois's mounting skepticism through his earliest church experiences to his sociological training in Berlin culminating with his writings in Crisis magazine. Johnson argues that despite Du Bois's frequent use of Protestant religious rhetoric, the mature Du Bois was a critic of African American religious organizations and their leaders, and a scientifically oriented agnostic who did not adhere to any religious orthodoxy.
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- Copyright year
- 2008
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7425-6449-7
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7425-6575-3
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 142
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- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction: Toward Agnosticism No access Pages 1 - 8
- Chapter 1. The First Congregational Church of Great Barrington No access Pages 9 - 22
- Chapter 2. T. Thomas Fortune's New York Globe (Freeman) and Great Barrington's "Very Religious" and "Strange" Settlers No access Pages 23 - 34
- Chapter 3. From a Christian Pragmatism to Social Science: Fisk, Harvard, and Berlin No access Pages 35 - 52
- Chapter 4. Silent Times: The Preacher, the Scholar, and the American Negro Academy No access Pages 53 - 68
- Chapter 5. "As the Crow Flies" No access Pages 69 - 102
- Chapter 6. The Agnostic Pupit: The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races No access Pages 103 - 128
- Epilogue: "The Great Ghandi," "The Prophet of Communism," and Agnostic Legacy No access Pages 129 - 138
- Index No access Pages 139 - 140
- About the Author No access Pages 141 - 142





