The Black church in the African American experience /

Lincoln, C. Eric 1924-2000.

The Black church in the African American experience / C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya. - 1 online resource (xvi, 519 pages) - Duke backfile .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-500) and index.

The religious dimension : toward a sociology of Black churches -- The Black Baptists : the first Black churches in America -- The Black Methodists : the institutionalization of Black religious independence -- The Black Pentecostals : The spiritual legacy with a Black beginning -- In the receding shadow of the plantation : a profile of rural clergy and churches in the Black Belt -- In the streets of the Black metropolis : a profile of Black urban clergy and churches -- The new Black revolution : the Black Consciousness Movement and the Black church -- "Now is the time!" : the Black church, politics, and civil rights militancy -- The American dream and the American dilemma : the Black church and economics -- The pulpit and the pew : the Black church and women -- "In my mother's house" : the Black church and young people -- The performed word : music and the Black church -- The Black church and the twenty-first century : challenges to the Black church.

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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.


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African American churches.
African Americans--Religion.
Églises noires américaines.
Noirs américains--Religion.
Godsdienstsociologie.
Protestantse kerken.
Zwarten.
African American churches.
African Americans--Religion.


United States--Church history.
États-Unis--Histoire religieuse.
United States

Afro-American churches Afro-Americans -- Religion United States -- Church history

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