This volume contains Frazier's classic study of the black church and a complementary essay in which Lincoln writes that the civil rights movement started the splintering of the traditional black church in America. No longer the dependent bastion of Black prudence, Lincoln argues that Black institutional religion has assumed a new role of leadership in its centuries-old quest for social and spiritual justice in America.
"A...brilliant analysis of the historical origin and the present situation of a crucially important institution of the American Negro people."--Gunnar Myrdal
Contents of The Negro Church in America
1. The Religion of the Slaves The Break with the African Background The Loss of Social Cohesion The Christian Religion Provides a New Basis of Social Cohesion Christianity: A New Orientation Toward Existence The Negro Adapts Christianity to His Experience in the New World The "Invisible Institution" Comes into Existence
2. The Institutional Church of the Free Negroes The Negroes Who Were Free Before the Civil War Relations of Free Negroes and Whites in the Churches Conflict over the Question of Status The Free Negroes Establish Their Own Churches
3. The Negro Church: A Nation Within a Nation The "Invisible Institution" Merges with the Institutional Church The Church as an Agency of Social Control The Church and Economic Cooperation The Church and Education An Arena of Political Life A Refuge in a Hostile White World
4. Negro Religion in the City The Migration to Cities The Secularization of the Churches Religion in the "Storefront" Church Negro Cults in the City
5. The Negro Church and Assimilation The Walls Came Tumbling Down The Church Is No Longer a Refuge The Gospel Singers The Religion of the New Middle Class
Contents to The Black Church Since Frazier
Introduction The Power in the Black Church The New Black Theology: Its Meaning and Its Relevance The Nation of Islam: An Alternative Expression of Black Religion
Appendixes a. Black Power b. The Black Manifesto c. Black Theology d. The Black Paper e. What the Muslims Believe f. What the Muslims Want
E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER (1894-1962) was considered to be one of the most influential African-American sociologists of the twentieth century. His The Negro Church in America (published posthumously) was groundbreaking in its study of the changes in the black church after the Civil Rights Movement. He wrote nine books and over one hundred essays.
C. ERIC LINCOLN (1924-2000) was an African-American scholar who taught all over the United States. His novel, The Avenue, Clayton City, won the Lillian Smith Book Award for Best Southern Fiction in 1988 and the International Black Writers' Alice Browning Award in 1989. He was an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and founding president of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters. He was friends with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Alex Haley. In 1990, he was cited by Pope John Paul II for "scholarly service to the church."
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This volume contains Frazier's classic study of the black church and a complementary essay in which Lincoln writes that the civil rights movement started the splintering of the traditional black church in America. No longer the dependent bastion of Black prudence, Lincoln argues that Black institutional religion has assumed a new role of leadership in its centuries-old quest for social and spiritual justice in America.
"A...brilliant analysis of the historical origin and the present situation of a crucially important institution of the American Negro people."--Gunnar Myrdal
Contents of The Negro Church in America
1. The Religion of the Slaves The Break with the African Background The Loss of Social Cohesion The Christian Religion Provides a New Basis of Social Cohesion Christianity: A New Orientation Toward Existence The Negro Adapts Christianity to His Experience in the New World The "Invisible Institution" Comes into Existence
2. The Institutional Church of the Free Negroes The Negroes Who Were Free Before the Civil War Relations of Free Negroes and Whites in the Churches Conflict over the Question of Status The Free Negroes Establish Their Own Churches
3. The Negro Church: A Nation Within a Nation The "Invisible Institution" Merges with the Institutional Church The Church as an Agency of Social Control The Church and Economic Cooperation The Church and Education An Arena of Political Life A Refuge in a Hostile White World
4. Negro Religion in the City The Migration to Cities The Secularization of the Churches Religion in the "Storefront" Church Negro Cults in the City
5. The Negro Church and Assimilation The Walls Came Tumbling Down The Church Is No Longer a Refuge The Gospel Singers The Religion of the New Middle Class
Contents to The Black Church Since Frazier
Introduction The Power in the Black Church The New Black Theology: Its Meaning and Its Relevance The Nation of Islam: An Alternative Expression of Black Religion
Appendixes a. Black Power b. The Black Manifesto c. Black Theology d. The Black Paper e. What the Muslims Believe f. What the Muslims Want
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E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER (1894-1962) was considered to be one of the most influential African-American sociologists of the twentieth century. His The Negro Church in America (published posthumously) was groundbreaking in its study of the changes in the black church after the Civil Rights Movement. He wrote nine books and over one hundred essays.
C. ERIC LINCOLN (1924-2000) was an African-American scholar who taught all over the United States. His novel, The Avenue, Clayton City, won the Lillian Smith Book Award for Best Southern Fiction in 1988 and the International Black Writers' Alice Browning Award in 1989. He was an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and founding president of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters. He was friends with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Alex Haley. In 1990, he was cited by Pope John Paul II for "scholarly service to the church."
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