TY - BOOK AU - Lincoln,C.Eric AU - Mamiya,Lawrence H. TI - The Black church in the African American experience T2 - Duke backfile SN - 9780822381648 AV - BR563.N4 L55 1990eb U1 - 277.3/08/08996073 20 PY - 1990/// CY - Durham PB - Duke University Press KW - African American churches KW - African Americans KW - Religion KW - Églises noires américaines KW - Noirs américains KW - Godsdienstsociologie KW - gtt KW - Protestantse kerken KW - Zwarten KW - United States KW - Church history KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire religieuse KW - fast KW - Afro-American churches KW - Afro-Americans -- Religion KW - United States -- Church history N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - 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 UR - https://ulsem.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=600268 ER -