Books by Charles Marsh and Complete Book Reviews

Marsh's father was a Baptist minister in Laurel, Miss., a typical Southern town that was also home to Sam Bowers, Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Mississippi Ku Klux Klan. In October 1967, the same day that jury selection began for...
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Charles Marsh, Author . Basic Books $26 (291p) ISBN 978-0-465-04415-3
In this ambitious, wide-ranging book, Marsh, a religion professor at the University of Virginia, argues that the Civil Rights movement was, at its core, a Christian attempt to forge a "beloved community" of believers who identify with the...
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Charles Marsh, Author Oxford University Press, USA $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-19-530720-7
Marsh (University of Virginia; The Beloved Community) enters the religion-and-politics fray in this provocative, and even prophetic, manifesto. In Marshs view, American evangelicals have sold their birthright to Republican politics, wholly...
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Charles Marsh, Author Princeton University Press $47.5 (304p) ISBN 978-0-691-02134-8
The summer of 1964 in Mississippi was in many ways the peak of the civil rights movement, culminating in the murder of three civil rights workers. Marsh, who directs the Project on Theology and Community at Loyola College in Baltimore, revisits the...
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Charles Marsh. HarperOne, $27.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-286273-0
In this spirited memoir, Marsh (God’s Long Summer), a religious studies professor at the University of Virginia, shares his lifelong struggle to reconcile his mental illness with his evangelical faith. He shares how he developed “trust in God and...
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