Gospel According to the Klan
：The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930
Publication subTitle ：The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930
Author： Baker > Kelly J.
Publisher： University Press of Kansas
Publication year： 2017
E-ISBN: 9780700624560
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780700624478
Subject： B97 基督教;K7 Americas History
Keyword： 基督教,宗教,社会学,民族学,文化人类学、社会人类学,美洲史
Language： ENG
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Description
To many Americans, modern marches by the Ku Klux Klan may seem like a throwback to the past or posturing by bigoted hatemongers. To Kelly Baker, they are a reminder of how deeply the Klan is rooted in American mainstream Protestant culture.
Most studies of the KKK dismiss it as an organization of racists attempting to intimidate minorities and argue that the Klan used religion only as a rhetorical device. Baker contends instead that the KKK based its justifications for hatred on a particular brand of Protestantism that resonated with mainstream Americans, one that employed burning crosses and robes to explicitly exclude Jews and Catholics.
To show how the Klan used religion to further its agenda of hate while appealing to everyday Americans, Kelly Baker takes readers back to its "second incarnation" in the 1920s. During that decade, the revived Klan hired a public relations firm that suggested it could reach a wider audience by presenting itself as a "fraternal Protestant organization that championed white supremacy as opposed to marauders of the night." That campaign was so successful that the Klan established chapters in all forty-eight states.
Baker has scoured official newspapers and magazines issued by the Klan during that era to reveal the inner workings of the order and show how its leadership manipulated religion, nationalism, gender, and race. Through these publications we see a Klan trying to adapt its hate-based positions with the changing ti
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