Your spirits walk beside us : the politics of Black religion

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Your spirits walk beside us : the politics of Black religion

Title remainder

the politics of Black religion

Statement of responsibility

Barbara Dianne Savage

Creator

• Savage, Barbara Dianne

Subject

• African American churches -- Political activity
• African American clergy -- Political activity
• Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Christianity and politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

"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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

277.3/08208996073

Index

index present

LC call number

BR563.N4

LC item number

S37 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography