The Black Church in Urban America
Author: Ida Rousseau Mukenge
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOverview of the role of the black church in cities; social, economic and political impact in 1983.
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Author: Ida Rousseau Mukenge
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOverview of the role of the black church in cities; social, economic and political impact in 1983.
Author: C. Eric Lincoln
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1990-11-07
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780822310730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA nongovernmental survey of urban and rural churches of black communities based on a ten year study.
Author: Omar M. McRoberts
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005-07
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 0226562174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong considered the lifeblood of black urban neighborhoods, churches are thought to be dedicated to serving their surrounding communities. But Omar McRoberts's work in Four Corners, a tough Boston neighborhood containing twenty-nine congregations, reveals a very different picture.
Author: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2021-02-16
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1984880349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices on the African American experience comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
Author: Clarence Taylor
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780231099813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn addition, they endorsed the education of the clergy, thereby demonstrating to American society at large that African Americans possessed the sophistication and the means to pursue and to promote culture.
Author: E. Franklin Frazier
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 1974-01-13
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0805203877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrazier's study of the black church and an essay by Lincoln arguing that the civil rights movement saw the splintering of the traditional black church and the creation of new roles for religion.
Author: Tony Evans
Publisher:
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780802412669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the Bible as a guide and heaven as the goal, Oneness Embraced calls God's people to kingdom-focused unity. It tells us why we don't have it, what we need to get it, and what it will look like when we do. Mr. Evans weaves his own story into this word to the church.
Author: Julia Marie Robinson Moore
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2015-04-15
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0814340377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBradby's efforts as an activist and "race leaderby examining the role the minister played in high-profile events, such as the organizing of Detroit's NAACP chapter, the Ossian Sweet trial of the mid-1920s, the Scottsboro Boys trials in the 1930s, and the controversial rise of the United Auto Workers in Detroit in the 1940s.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on General Oversight, Investigations, and the Resolution of Failed Financial Institutions
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew Billingsley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999-06-24
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780198026587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout 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.