Mighty Like a River: The Black Church and Social ReformOxford University Press, 24.06.1999 - 288 Seiten Throughout the history of the African American people there has been no stronger resource for overcoming adversity than the black church. From its role in leading a group of free Blacks to form a colony in Sierra Leone in the 1790s to helping ex-slaves after the Civil War, and from playing major roles in the Civil Rights Movement to offering community outreach programs in American cities today, black churches have been the focal point of social change in their communities. Based on extensive research over several years, Mighty Like a River is the first comprehensive account of how black churches have helped shape American society. An expert in African American culture, Andrew Billingsley surveys nearly a thousand black churches across the country, including its oldest, the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia. These black churches, whose roots extend back to antebellum times, have periodically confronted social, economic, and political problems facing the African American community. Mighty Like a River addresses such questions as: How widespread and effective is the community activity of black churches? What are the patterns of activities being undertaken today? How do activist churches confront such problems as family instability, youth development, AIDS and other health issues, and care for the elderly? With profiles of the remarkable black heroes and heroines who helped create the activist church, and a compelling agenda for expanding the black church's role in society at large, Mighty Like a River is an inspirational, visionary, and definitive account of the subject. |
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... established churches. The investigators highlight a number of activist congregations. An implicit negative assessment is levied upon ''conservative'' fellowships that appear to be oblivious to the suffering in their midst. I share this ...
... established churches. The investigators highlight a number of activist congregations. An implicit negative assessment is levied upon ''conservative'' fellowships that appear to be oblivious to the suffering in their midst. I share this ...
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... established religion in America, but from the black experience in America, which was and is a very singular illustration of the complexities of the human predicament, and of the spiritual resources available to the black church's ...
... established religion in America, but from the black experience in America, which was and is a very singular illustration of the complexities of the human predicament, and of the spiritual resources available to the black church's ...
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... established under the leadership of ex-slave Richard Allen in Philadelphia in 1815. The black church came into existence fully committed to the private or spiritual aspects of religion as yin to the yang of public religious concern ...
... established under the leadership of ex-slave Richard Allen in Philadelphia in 1815. The black church came into existence fully committed to the private or spiritual aspects of religion as yin to the yang of public religious concern ...
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... established that the black church is a profoundly social institution and often serves as an agent of social reform. W.E.B. Du Bois The earliest sociologist to study the black church as a social institution was Du Bois.3 He pioneered the ...
... established that the black church is a profoundly social institution and often serves as an agent of social reform. W.E.B. Du Bois The earliest sociologist to study the black church as a social institution was Du Bois.3 He pioneered the ...
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... established Mutual Aid Societies after emancipation and throughout the 19th century, and these evolved into black-owned insurance companies. They created and organized black fraternal organizations, which served both social and economic ...
... established Mutual Aid Societies after emancipation and throughout the 19th century, and these evolved into black-owned insurance companies. They created and organized black fraternal organizations, which served both social and economic ...
Inhalt
THE CONTEMPORARY BLACK CHURCH REACHES OUT TO THE COMMUNITY | 85 |
Project Advisory Committee Members | 195 |
Studying Contemporary Black Churches | 198 |
Tables | 207 |
Notes | 227 |
References | 245 |
Index | 251 |
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