University of kansas professor randall jelks. He taught a class about the role of africanamerican ministers in politics. His class is about an hour. Good afternoon. Lets try this again. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. All right. All right. So i want to build on what we began to talk about last week. On monday. And that is that africanamericans had a Civil Society and that is Civil Society by that i mean society outside the state. That people where people had their social networks, their continuities. And one of the interest things that has come out of that, those connections is a kind of leadership out of a black congregation, particularly the clergy. Now in this discussion, im going to talk too much about men, but males have dominated in some ways the kind of conversation about american politics for a number of reasons, as we can see. See my little thing works. Lets try this again. So there are a host of characters, im not going to talk about all of them, but there are some things tha
Society by that i mean society outside the state. That people where people had their social networks, their continuities. And one of the interest things that has come out of that, those connections is a kind of leadership out of a black congregation, particularly the clergy. Now in this discussion, im going to talk too much about men, but males have dominated in some ways the kind of conversation about american politics for a number of reasons, as we can see. See my little thing works. Lets try this again. So there are a host of characters, im not going to talk about all of them, but there are some things that i really want you to Pay Attention to. One, it says Indigenous Community organization. Black churches are Indigenous Community organizations and its an indigenous because it is controlled by the people at the very lowest level, at the ground level. And i dont mean that in terms of status, but at the ground level. And therefore it can you see this other word it creates its own org
American history tv is in the classroom with a lecture by university of kansas professor randall jelks. He taught a class about the role of africanamerican ministers in politics. His class is about an hour. Good afternoon. Lets try this again. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. All right. All right. So i want to build on what we began to talk about last week. On monday. And that is that africanamericans had a Civil Society and that is Civil Society by that i mean society outside the state. That people where people had their social networks, their continuities. And one of the interest things that has come out of that, those connections is a kind of leadership out of a black congregation, particularly the clergy. Now in this discussion, im going to talk too much about men, but males have dominated in some ways the kind of conversation about american politics for a number of reasons, as we can see. See my little thing works. Lets try this again. So there are a host of characters, im not goin
Prof. Worthen let us begin. My name is molly worthen. We are at the university of North Carolina at chapel hill and todays lecture is on the history of american fundamentalism and pentecostalism. I will try to answer three Big Questions today. Number one, what is protestant fundamentalism . What does the term mean . Second, how did fundamentalists relate to mainstream culture . And third, why has fundamentalism been so much more influential in the United States than in any other society in the western world . I am curious, is fundamentalism, fundamentalists are these terms that you hear today . Do you know people who call themselves fundamentalists or use this label . I can see some nodding. Any examples . Is that how they describe groups that do terrorist attack . It is a term that you hear more often in the context of islam. What about here, among American Christian groups . I am from up north. And many of the christians down here we call fundamentalist christians. Often as a perjora
That is proverbs, and sometimes they were proverbs. Of philosophyype of thiscellent example type of emphasis on virtue and in industry and frugality that were the of franklins philosophy about religion and morality. Thatere is a way in which statement in particular in a way hisd calvinist forbearers would not have wanted to do. The point for his parents would be do not just need god to help you. You need god to change her life. What needs to happen is we are converted by experience of gods transforming power, we were able to live a godly and and i think that type is more of god is a type of supplement. If you work hard and are honest, that things will go well for you. It is a classic american creed but it may sit uncomfortably with the council of scripture. Would you say that is a deist statement . Yes. It has a deist flavor to it. Youbeing active but also need to take responsibility for yourself, that gods work and power is not the first thing that you need. The first thing you need i