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The Other Black Church / Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tucker Edmonds, Joseph L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Religion.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Politics and government.
- Democracy--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v, 200 pages.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2020.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Fortress Academic, 2020.
- Summary:
- "The Other Black Church places Father Divine, Charles Mason of COGIC, and Albert Cleage in conversation with the long history of Black theology and Black religious studies, and it suggests that alternative Christian movements are essential for thinking about African American critiques of and responses to the failures of US-based democracy"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The canonical Black body
- Bound no more: Charles Mason, Black scriptures, and the working-class body
- Deracinated democracy and the Black divine
- The whole body: alternative Christian economic self-determination and the Black Madonna
- Toward embodied freedom: crisis and collaborations on the margins of the Black church tradition.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-174) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-1997-3
- 1-9787-0481-X
- OCLC:
- 1501682353
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