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The Black Church in the African American Experience (Paperback, New)
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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.
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