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Document Type: | Book |
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Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs |
ISBN: | 9781932792744 1932792740 9781602584228 1602584222 |
OCLC Number: | 695390064 |
Awards: | Winner of W.E.B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award 2012 (United States) |
Description: | xix, 255 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Answering the knock at midnight -- "Get on board little children, there's room for many more": the Black megachurch phenomenon -- Theological orientation as motive to Black megachurch public engagement -- "Progress not protest": Black megachurches and communtiy development -- Dual gendered spheres and public engagement in Black megachurches: women carving out space to make a difference -- Black megachurches and Black politics in the twenty-first century. |
Responsibility: | Tamelyn N. Tucker-Worgs. |
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" The Black Megachurch is the best empirical study of black megachurches and politics. Covering 149 churches, Tucker-Worgs astutely shows their wide variety and relates their theological orientation to the types of public engagement they undertake." --Lawrence Mamiya, Professor of Religion and Africana Studies on the Mattie M. Paschall Davis and Norman H. Davis Chair, Vassar College "Tucker-Worgs advances a progressive framework for evaluating the impact of black megachurches while providing one of the most comprehensive profiles of these churches available to date." --R. Drew Smith, Director, Center for the Church and the Black Experience, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary "A timely analysis of a much discussed but rarely understood phenomenon. Finally, we have a book on religion and black politics that begins to provide some rigorous insight into the black megachurch movement. The Black Megachurch will be an important resource for years to come." --Fredrick C. Harris, Professor of Political Science and Director for the Institute in African-American Studies, Columbia University Read more...

