The Black church in the African-American experience C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lincoln, C. Eric (Charles Eric), 1924-2000, author.

Mamiya, Lawrence H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American churches.

African Americans--Religion.

African Americans.

United States--Church history.

United States.

United States--History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 519 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1990.

Summary:

A nongovernmental survey of urban and rural churches of black communities based on a ten year study.

Contents:

The religious dimension : toward a sociology of Black churches

The Black Baptists : the first Black churches in America

The Black Methodists : the institutionalization of Black religious independence

The Black Pentecostals : The spiritual legacy with a Black beginning

In the receding shadow of the plantation : a profile of rural clergy and churches in the Black Belt

In the streets of the Black metropolis : a profile of Black urban clergy and churches

The new Black revolution : the Black Consciousness Movement and the Black church

"Now is the time!" : the Black church, politics, and civil rights militancy

The American dream and the American dilemma : the Black church and economics

The pulpit and the pew : the Black church and women

"In my mother's house" : the Black church and young people

The performed word : music and the Black church

The Black church and the twenty-first century : challenges to the Black church.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-500) and index.

Local Notes:

Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection

Other Format:

Online version: Lincoln, C. Eric (Charles Eric), 1924-2000. Black church in the African-American experience.

ISBN:

0822310570

9780822310570

0822310732

9780822310730

OCLC:

1340669010