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The Kingdom of God is not only spiritual -- it is intensely
practical. The church today must move beyond its traditional role
if it is to truly fulfill its mission. It can no longer respond
only to spiritual needs and speak only to people's hearts. The
church is called to be a force for change in the world, especially
where the needs are greatest: the inner-city neighborhoods where
crime, violence, and unemployment are the order of the day.
Economic Empowerment Through the Church is a practical book that
shows churches how to become a force for revitalization in their
community by means of "economic empowerment"-- by becoming involved
in the everyday, economic life of their communities. It shows
churches how to structure themselves, how to avoid tax problems,
what businesses they can operate without jeopardizing their
tax-exempt status, and step-by-step guidelines for implementing
ancillary operations such as real estate, day care centers, drug
abuse rehabilitation centers, housing projects, and others. The
book includes checklists that help churches avoid missing crucial
steps, as well as sample documents and forms.
A classic work on religion and the racial problems of modern america -now brought up to date.
Since the early days of the Republic, Americans' exuberant, unchastened idealism, their commitment to the notion of a perfect society in the New World, has clashed with the reality of ugly American society, and religious groups have all too often accommodated themselves to these injustices.
In Race, Religion, and the Continuing American Dilemma, C. Eric Lincoln reevaluates what Gunnar Myrdal called "the American dilemma" and studies particularly the influence of the black church. This revised edition takes into account the weakening of welfare and affirmative action, and argues that the black church must serve today as a vital moral authority to lead us in to the twenty-first century..
This new edition of Lincoln's classic study details the formation
and development of the Black Muslim movement through its
wide-ranging expressions in America today, focusing especially on
Louis Farrakhan's movement as the true successor to the original
Nation of Islam founded by Elijah Muhammad.
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.
The Avenue in C. Eric Lincoln's fictional town is the principal
residential street of the black community in Clayton City, a
prototypical southern town languishing between the two world wars.
Unpaved and marked by ditches full of frogs, snakes, and empty
whiskey bottles on one side of town, it is the same street, though
with a different name, that originates downtown. Only when it
reaches the black section of Clayton City do the paving stop and
the trash-filled ditches begin. On one side, it provides a
significant address for the white people who live there. On the
other, despite its rundown air, it is still the best address
available to the town's black population. Some of them, in fact,
are willing to go to any extreme, including murder, to get there.
In this novel, originally published in 1988, Lincoln creates with
deft skill the drama that rises from the lives of the people of
Clayton City. In turn amusing, disgusting, enraging, wistful, and,
as one hears the secrets hidden deep in their hearts, shocking,
they exist in a place whose vibrant personality is itself a unique
configuration of geography, relationships, patterns of behavior,
and events. It is also a place whose unspoken and hidden power lies
in its crushing compulsion to maintain itself as it already is--a
power that forces everyone to succumb to an inflexible social
order.
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