{"product_id":"this-worldwide-struggle-9780190262204","title":"THIS WORLDWIDE STRUGGLE","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement identifies a network of black Christian intellectuals and activists who looked abroad  even in other religious traditions  for ideas and practices that could transform American democracy. From the 1930s to the 1950s  they drew lessons from independence movements around for the world for an American racial justice campaign. Their religious perspectives and methods of moral reasoning developed theological blueprints for the classical phase of the Civil Rights Movement. The network included professors and public intellectuals Howard Thurman  Benjamin Mays  and William Stuart Nelson  each of whom met with Mohandas Gandhi in India; ecumenical movement leaders  notably YWCA women  Juliette Derricotte  Sue Bailey Thurman  and Celestine Smith; and pioneers of black Christian nonviolence James Farmer  Pauli Murray  and Bayard Rustin. People in this group became mentors and advisors to and coworkers with Martin Luther King and thus became links between Gandhi  who was killed in 1948  and King  who became a national figure in 1956. Azaranskys research reveals fertile intersections of worldwide resistance movements  American racial politics  and interreligious exchanges that crossed literal borders and disciplinary boundaries  and underscores the role of religion in justice movements. Shedding new light on how international and interreligious encounters were integral to the greatest American social movement of the last century  This Worldwide Struggle confirms the relationship between moral reflection and democratic practice  and it contains vital lessons for movement building today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666197798965,"sku":"ByrdShop_0190262206","price":69.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780190262204.jpg?v=1782422547","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/this-worldwide-struggle-9780190262204","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}