| Autor: |
Andrew M. Manis |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, Vol 0, Iss 5, Pp 60-77 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2585-3538 |
| DOI: |
10.26262/exna.v0i5.8493 |
| Popis: |
This project narrates the story of Greek-Americans' reactions to the historic civil rights movement in perhaps its most important nerve centers, Birmingham, Alabama. In 1960 Archbishop Iakovos placed in that racial hotbed a young priest named Father Soterios “Sam” Gouvellis, who served the Holy Trinity-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church during the most volatile years of the black freedom struggle. Father Sam joined the ad hoc ministerial group whose letter to Martin Luther King Jr. spawned the famous Letter from Birmingham Jail. Gouvellis became involved with the black freedom struggle in Birmingham and eventually marched with King and Archbishop Iakovos in Selma. This project will tell the story of how Gouvellis and his congregation negotiated the mysteries of evangelical religion in the Bible Belt and the enigmas of race in the Jim Crow South. This article distills the argument of what will be the only biography of Gouvellis and one of a very few studies of religion, race, and Greek ethnicity in the American South. |
| Databáze: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
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