Your spirits walk beside us : the politics of Black religion / Barbara Dianne Savage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savage, Barbara Dianne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American churches--Political activity.

African American churches.

African American clergy--Political activity.

African American clergy.

African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Christianity and politics--United States--History--20th century.

Christianity and politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The reformation of the "Negro church"

Illusions of black religion

In pursuit of pentecost

The advent to civil rights

Southern Black liberal protestantism

A religious rebellion

Reconcilable difference.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-340) and index.

ISBN:

9780674267039

0674267036

9780674043114

0674043111

OCLC:

503446386