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Mighty like a River: The Black Church and Social Reform » Read Now
by Andrew Billingsley. 266 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Throughout the history of the African American people there has been no stronger resource for overcoming adversity than the black church. From its role in leading a group of free Blacks to form a colony in Sierra Leone in the 1790s to helping ex-slaves after the Civil War, and from playing major...
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Throughout the history of the African American people there has been no stronger resource for overcoming adversity than the black church. From its role in leading a group of free Blacks to form a colony in Sierra Leone in the 1790s to helping ex-slaves after the Civil War, and from playing major roles in the Civil Rights Movement to offering community outreach programs in American cities today, black churches have been the focal point of social change in their communities. Based on extensive research over several years, Mighty Like a River is the first comprehensive account of how black churches have helped shape American society. An expert in African American culture, Andrew Billingsley surveys nearly a thousand black churches across the country, including its oldest, the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia. These black churches, whose roots extend back to antebellum times, have periodically confronted social, economic, and political problems facing the African American community. Mighty Like a River addresses such questions as: How widespread and effective is the community activity of black churches? What are the patterns of activities being undertaken today? How do activist churches confront such problems as family instability, youth development, AIDS and other health issues, and care for the elderly? With profiles of the remarkable black heroes and heroines who helped create the activist church, and a compelling agenda for expanding the black church's role in society at large, Mighty Like a River is an inspirational, visionary, and definitive account of the subject.
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The Black Church in the African-American Experience » Read Now
by C. Eric Lincoln, Lawrence H. Mamiya. 518 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History » Read Now
by Albert J. Raboteau. 224 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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Black Religious Leaders: Conflict in Unity » Read Now
by Peter J. Paris. 328 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...its leadership. Further, since Black churches constituted the primary agency...after the birth of the independent Black churches in the late eighteenth century...and the...
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Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa » Read Now
by James T. Campbell. 424 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This is a study of the transplantation of a creed devised by and for African Americans--the African Methodist Episcopal Church--that was appropriated and transformed in a variety of South African contexts. Focusing on a transatlantic institution like the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the book...
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This is a study of the transplantation of a creed devised by and for African Americans--the African Methodist Episcopal Church--that was appropriated and transformed in a variety of South African contexts. Focusing on a transatlantic institution like the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the book studies the complex human and intellectual traffic that has bound African American and South African experience. It explores the development and growth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church both in South Africa and America, and the interaction between the two churches. This is a highly innovative work of comparative and religious history. Its linking of the United States and African black religious experiences is unique and makes it appealing to readers interested in religious history and black experience in both the United States and South Africa.
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In the Receding Shadow of the Plantation: A Profile of Rural Clergy and Churches in the Black Belt, in Review of Religious Research » Read Now
by C. Eric Lincoln, Lawrence H. Mamiya. 20 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Vol. 29, No. 4 (June, 1988) Black churches have been among the most dominant...data about both urban and rural black churches are practically nonexistent. There...done in...
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Leaders for Black Churches: Mentors and Managers, in The Christian Century » Read Now
by Charitey Simmons. 3 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Leaders for black churches: mentors and managers by Charitey Simmons BLACK CHURCHES are widely recognized as the pre-eminent...get it." In the 1950s and 1960s, black...
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The Churches and Social Change: Accommodation, Moderation, or Protest, in Daedalus » Read Now
by Obie Clayton Jr. 18 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the exception of the family, the Black churches are incontestably the most important...in the 1940s, stated that the Black churches and the Black press were...
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The American Context as an Area for Research in Black Church Studies, in Church history » Read Now
by Winthrop S. Hudson. 15 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...strength and vitality of the black churches. How is the distinctive character...American experience out of which the black churches emerged. There is a limit...
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The African-American Predicament (Chap. 10 "Black Churches and the Inner-City Poor") » Read Now
by Christopher H. Foreman. 216 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

As the 20th century ends, the fate of the African-American community remains a central and hotly contested focus of our national political discourse. Although American race relations, and the structure of opportunities facing most African-Americans, have dramatically improved in recent decades...
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As the 20th century ends, the fate of the African-American community remains a central and hotly contested focus of our national political discourse. Although American race relations, and the structure of opportunities facing most African-Americans, have dramatically improved in recent decades, daunting challenges and questions remain. This book examines the vexing reality of racial conditions in America today: improved overall, but far more complicated than they used to seem, and in important respects continually depressing. Thirteen provocative and timely essays--by some of the most highly respected experts in the nation--present thoughtful, and often-competing, assessments of African-American progress and of the prospects for its further enhancement. The authors examine the educational achievement disparities and education policy choices confronting black America; the track record of faith-based organizations in improving poor inner-city communities; the continuing impediments to residential integration;,and data-based arguments for continuing affirmative action programs. The final chapter discusses the feasibility of "reaching beyond race" to build stronger political coalitions for racially-progressive policies. In addition to the editor, the authors include Edward G. Carmines, Linda Darling-Hammond, John J. DiIulio, Jr., Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Nathan Glazer, Jay P. Greene, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Christopher Jencks, Phillip Klinkner, Glenn C. Loury, Orlando Patterson, Paul E. Peterson, Meredith Phillips, Rogers Smith, Paul M. Sniderman, Abigail Thernstrom, and Stephan Thernstrom.
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Supporting Black Churches, in Brookings Review » Read Now
by John J. Diiulio Jr. 4 pgs.

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...SUPPORTING BLACK CHURCHES. by JOHN J. DIIULIO JR...black ministers and more than 2,100 black churches, some 71 percent of black clergy reported...authors concluded, "We...
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Who was Burning the Black Churches?, in Columbia Journalism Review » Read Now
by Joe Holley. 8 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...Who was burning the black churches? by Joe Holley On...matter of days, the burning at black churches became one of those soaring stories...hyperbole? The story of the fires...