Reviews

“In a meticulously researched and well-argued monograph, Elizabeth Jemison reminds us of Christianity's central role in America's tortured racial history.” - Journal of Southern History

“Jemison’s point is clear: US society is still wrestling with the afterlives of proslavery, Christian rhetoric. In making this claim, she invites historians and students of history to reflect upon the fraught meanings of citizenship and the long reach of the histories they create.” – Church History 

“In what is sure to become a field-defining volume, Elizabeth L. Jemison … expertly analyzes a wide range of denominational records, religious newspapers, and personal correspondence to show how Black and white Christians staked their actions and aspirations on notions of ‘Christian citizenship,’ a highly gendered concept that each group interpreted differently.” – Journal of American History

“In Christian Citizens, Elizabeth Jemison argues that the mind-set of proslavery theology—particularly its outlooks on patriotism, the past, and the norms surrounding family, gender, and sex—played a significant role in the trajectory of racial hierarchy and segregation in the postemancipation South.” – Journal of the Civil War Era

“Jemison’s book spotlights the urgent question of the abyssal fractures in our body politic.” - Political Theology

“In lucid and accessible prose, Christian Citizens illumines the longstanding and deeply troubling connections between conservative theology, patriarchy, and white supremacy in American history.” – Journal of American Ethnic History

“A  powerful, convincing, and timely book. … Jemison has produced a first-rate study that takes a place of honor in the historiography of American religion.” – Journal of Church and State