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Your spirits walk beside us : the politics of Black religion
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Your spirits walk beside us : the politics of Black religion

Author: Barbara Dianne Savage
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"From the 1920s on, some of the best African American minds - W. E. B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Benjamin Mays, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles S. Johnson, and others - argued tirelessly about the churches' responsibility in the quest for racial justice. Could they be a liberal force, or would they be a constraint on progress? There was no single, unified black church but rather many churches  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara Dianne Savage
ISBN: 9780674031777 0674031776
OCLC Number: 225874311
Description: 359 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: The reformation of the "Negro church" -- Illusions of black religion -- In pursuit of pentecost -- The advent to civil rights -- Southern Black liberal protestantism -- A religious rebellion -- Reconcilable difference.
Responsibility: Barbara Dianne Savage.
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"From the 1920s on, some of the best African American minds - W. E. B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Benjamin Mays, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles S. Johnson, and others - argued tirelessly about the churches' responsibility in the quest for racial justice. Could they be a liberal force, or would they be a constraint on progress? There was no single, unified black church but rather many churches marked by enormous intellectual, theological, and political differences and independence. Yet, in the face of discrimination and poverty, churches were called upon again and again to come together as savior institutions for black communities." "The tension between faith and political activism in black churches testifies to the difficult and unpredictable project of coupling religion and politics in the twentieth century. By retrieving the people, the polemics, and the force of the spiritual that animated African American political life, Savage has dramatically demonstrated the challenge to all religious institutions seeking political change in our time."--BOOK JACKET.

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