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God and Government in the Ghetto (Paperback)
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In recent years, as government agencies have encouraged faith-based
organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches
have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods'
poorest residents. This collaboration, activist churches explain,
is a way of enacting their faith and helping their neighborhoods.
But as Michael Leo Owens demonstrates in "God and Government in the
Ghetto," this alliance also serves as a means for black clergy to
reaffirm their political leadership and reposition moral authority
in black civil society. Drawing on both survey data and fieldwork
in New York City, Owens reveals that African American churches can
use these newly forged connections with public agencies to
influence policy and government responsiveness in a way that
reaches beyond traditional electoral or protest politics. The
churches and neighborhoods, Owens argues, can see a real benefit
from that influence--but it may come at the expense of less
involvement at the grassroots.
Anyone with a stake in the changing strategies employed by churches
as they fight for social justice will find "God and Government in
the Ghetto" compelling reading.
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