The Negro Church in America/The Black Church Since Frazier

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