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The Black Church in the African American Experience
By C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya
Pages: 536
Size: 6" x 9"
ISBN: 0822310732
Publish Date: 1990
Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Black Church in America has long been recognized as the
most independent, stable, and dominant institution in black
communities. Based on a ten-year study, The Black Church in
the African American Experience is the largest
non-governmental survey of urban and rural churches ever
undertaken and was the first major field study since the
thirties.
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 the Black Church as it relates to the history of African
Americans and to contemporary black culture. In examining
both the internal structure of the Church and the reactions
of the Church to external, societal challenges, the authors
provide important insights into the Churchs relationship to
politics, economics, women, youth, and music, and trends
that will define the Black Church well into the next
century. This study is complete with a comprehensive
bibliography of literature on the black experience in
religion. Funding for the survey was made possible by the
Lilly Endowment and the Ford Foundation.
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