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Something within : religion in African-American political activism

Author: Fredrick C Harris
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"One of the first book-length studies devoted to religion and African-American political activism in a generation, Something Within explores how Afro-Christianity, in various ways, promotes the political activism of African Americans.

Going beyond the opiate-inspiration debate that has dominated research on the subject, author Fredrick C.

Harris illustrates the participatory effects of Afro-Christianity by  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Fredrick C Harris
ISBN: 0195120337 9780195120332
OCLC Number: 41143045
Description: x, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: When a little becomes much: religious resources in action --
Prophetic fragments: macro and micro foundations of religious resources --
Religion reconsidered: Black protest and electoral activism in an age of transformation --
Blessed assurance: religion, personal empowerment, and African-American political activism --
Rock in a weary land: religious institutions and African-American political activism --
Ties that bind: linking religion and intermediary resources to political action --
The last shall be first: religion, oppositional culture, and African-American political mobilization --
In my father's house: religion and gender in African-American political life.
Responsibility: Fredrick C. Harris.
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Abstract:

"One of the first book-length studies devoted to religion and African-American political activism in a generation, Something Within explores how Afro-Christianity, in various ways, promotes the political activism of African Americans.

Going beyond the opiate-inspiration debate that has dominated research on the subject, author Fredrick C.

Harris illustrates the participatory effects of Afro-Christianity by examining its institutional, psychological, and cultural influences."--BOOK JACKET.

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