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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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward Agnosticism
- Chapter 1. The First Congregational Church of Great Barrington
- Chapter 2. T. Thomas Fortune's New York Globe (Freeman) and Great Barrington's "Very Religious" and "Strange" Settlers
- Chapter 3. From a Christian Pragmatism to Social Science: Fisk, Harvard, and Berlin
- Chapter 4. Silent Times: The Preacher, the Scholar, and the American Negro Academy
- Chapter 5. "As the Crow Flies"
- Chapter 6. The Agnostic Pupit: The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races
- Epilogue: "The Great Ghandi," "The Prophet of Communism," and Agnostic Legacy
- Index
- About the Author
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