Description: W. E. B. Du Bois was editor and principal author of
The Negro Church, first published in 1903. A groundbreaking study,
this volume is the first in-depth treatment of African-American
religious life. It is the first sociological book on religion in
the United States. It is the first empirical study of religion
conducted by Black scholars. It is a landmark historical text on
African-American religion and mores of a century and more ago. A
new introduction provides the contextual backdrop for understanding
the religious scholarship and faith of Du Bois. The appearance of
this text for a new generation of students, scholars, researchers,
and communities of faith is cause to celebrate. Recognition of The
Negro Church is long overdue and justly deserved. Endorsements:
""The entire scholarly community and all concerned Americans
welcome the reprint of The Negro Church. W. E. B. Du Bois, the most
brilliant intellectual ever produced by the United States, penned
this social scientific study in 1903. Not only is this the first
academic engagement with the black church and black religion. It is
also the first text on sociology of religion in American history.
Thus Du Bois understood the centrality of black people to the US
narrative. Similarly, he understood the centrality of the black
church for black communities. Here is scholarship at its
best--engaged, theoretical work making a difference in everyday
lives. Alton B. Pollard III has offered a masterful introduction
for the twenty-first-century reader."" -Dwight N. Hopkins author of
Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion ""No one can have a
respectable knowledge of African American Christianity who has not
read Woodson's The History of the Negro Church (1921) and Du Bois's
earlier sociological study of the same subject, The Negro Church
(1903). Now we have a much anticipated new edition of the latter
book by one of the late C. Eric Lincoln's brightest proteges, Alton
B. Pollard, the dean of the Divinity School of Howard University.
Pollard's explanatory and expansive introduction is alone worth the
price of the book, making Du Bois's path-blazing opus live again as
an indispensable guide to understanding the scope, depth, and
paradoxes of classic Black religion and theology today."" -Gayraud
S. Wilmore ITC, Honorably Retired ""In editing and providing
commentary on The Negro Church, Alton B. Pollard III has provided a
valuable and accessible resource for Du Bois scholars and students
that is also of interest for general readers."" -Carol B. Duncan
Wilfrid Laurier University About the Contributor(s): W. E. B. Du
Bois is a towering figure in African-American and US
twentieth-century social, cultural, political, and intellectual
life. He was a pioneering social scientist, leading literary light,
political progressive, and precursor to the modern Black-led
movement for freedom in the African Diaspora and on the African
continent. DuBois's spiritual disciples and descendants among the
world's communities of African descent are numerous. Alton B.
Pollard III is Dean and Professor of Religion and Culture at Howard
University School of Divinity and is the author of Mysticism and
Social Change: The Social Witness of Howard Thurman.
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