C Eric Lincoln

The Black Church in the African American Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

The Black Church in America has long been recognized as the most independent, stable and dominant institution in black communities. Based on a ten-year study, The Black Church In The African American Experience is the largest nongovernmental survey of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and the first major field study since the thirties.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9780822310730
• ISBN-10: 0822310732
• Artikelnr.: 21075044

Autorenporträt

C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xi
1 The Religious Dimension: Toward a Sociology of Black Churches 1
2 The Black Baptists: The First Black Churches in America 20
3 The Black Methodists: The Institutionalization of Black Religious
Independence 47
4 The Black Pentecostals: The Spiritual Legacy with a Black Beginning 76
5 In the Receding Shadow of the Plantation: A Profile of Rural Clergy and
Churches in the Black Belt 92
6 In the Streets of the Black Metropolis: A Profile of Black Urban Clergy
and Churches 115
7 The New Black Revolution: The Black Consciousness Movement and the Black
Church 164
8 "Now Is the Time!" The Black Church, Politics, and Civil Rights Militancy
196
9 The American Dream and the American Dilemma: The Black Church and
Economics 236
10 the Pulpit and the Pew: The Black Church and Women 274
11 "In My Mother's House": The Black Church and Young People 309
12 The Performed Word: Music and the Black Church 346
13 The Black Church and the Twenty-First Century: Challenges to the Black
Church 382
Appendix 405
Notes 411
Bibliography 469
Index 501