The Negro Church in America/The Black Church Since Frazier

The Negro Church in America/The Black Church Since Frazier

Author: E. Franklin Frazier

Publisher: Schocken

Published: 1974-01-13

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0805203877

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Frazier'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.


The Black Church in the African American Experience

The Black Church in the African American Experience

Author: C. Eric Lincoln

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1990-11-07

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 0822381648

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Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black Church in the African American Experience, based on a ten-year study, is the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and the first major field study on the subject since the 1930s. Drawing on interviews with more than 1,800 black clergy in both urban and rural settings, combined with a comprehensive historical overview of seven mainline black denominations, C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya present an analysis of the Black Church as it relates to the history of African Americans and to contemporary black culture. In examining both the internal structure of the Church and the reactions of the Church to external, societal changes, the authors provide important insights into the Church’s relationship to politics, economics, women, youth, and music. Among other topics, Lincoln and Mamiya discuss the attitude of the clergy toward women pastors, the reaction of the Church to the civil rights movement, the attempts of the Church to involve young people, the impact of the black consciousness movement and Black Liberation Theology and clergy, and trends that will define the Black Church well into the next century. This study is complete with a comprehensive bibliography of literature on the black experience in religion. Funding for the ten-year survey was made possible by the Lilly Endowment and the Ford Foundation.


The Negro Church in America

The Negro Church in America

Author: E. Franklin Frazier

Publisher: New York : Schocken Books

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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Frazier'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.


Black Church Beginnings

Black Church Beginnings

Author: Henry H. Mitchell

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2004-10-04

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780802827852

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Black Church Beginnings provides an intimate look at the struggles of African Americans to establish spiritual communities in the harsh world of slavery in the American colonies. Written by one of today's foremost experts on African American religion, this book traces the growth of the black church from its start in the mid-1700s to the end of the nineteenth century.As Henry Mitchell shows, the first African American churches didn't just organize; they labored hard, long, and sacrificially to form a meaningful, independent faith. Mitchell insightfully takes readers inside this process of development. He candidly examines the challenge of finding adequately trained pastors for new local congregations, confrontations resulting from internal class structure in big city churches, and obstacles posed by emerging denominationalism.Original in its subject matter and singular in its analysis, Mitchell's Black Church Beginnings makes a major contribution to the study of American church history.


Black Bourgeoisie

Black Bourgeoisie

Author: Franklin Frazier

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1997-02-13

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0684832410

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Originally published: Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, [1957].


The Negro's Church

The Negro's Church

Author: Benjamin E. Mays

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1498234291

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Benjamin E. Mays (1894-1984) was President and Professor Emeritus of Morehouse College.


Your Spirits Walk Beside Us

Your Spirits Walk Beside Us

Author: Barbara Dianne Savage

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0674043111

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Even before the emergence of the civil rights movement, African American religion and progressive politics were assumed to be inextricably intertwined. Savage counters this assumption with the story of a highly diversified religious community whose debates over engagement in the struggle for racial equality were as vigorous as they were persistent.


The Divided Mind of the Black Church

The Divided Mind of the Black Church

Author: Raphael G. Warnock

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1479806005

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A revealing look at the identity and mission of the Black church What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls, or to transform the social order? This question is especially fraught when the church is one built by an enslaved people and formed, from its beginning, at the center of an oppressed community’s fight for personhood and freedom. Such is the central tension in the identity and mission of the Black church in the United States. For decades the Black church and Black theology have held each other at arm’s length. Black theology has emphasized the role of Christian faith in addressing racism and other forms of oppression, arguing that Jesus urged his disciples to seek the freedom of all peoples. Meanwhile, the Black church, even when focused on social concerns, has often emphasized personal piety rather than social protest. With the rising influence of white evangelicalism, biblical fundamentalism, and the prosperity gospel, the divide has become even more pronounced. In The Divided Mind of the Black Church, Raphael G. Warnock, Senior Pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, the spiritual home of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., traces the historical significance of the rise and development of Black theology as an important conversation partner for the Black church. Calling for honest dialogue between Black and womanist theologians and Black pastors, this fresh theological treatment demands a new look at the church’s essential mission.