01816cam a22002411 45000010008000000030006000080050017000140080041000310100017000720400018000890430012001070500025001190820010001441000042001542450033001962600038002293000023002674900025002905040031003155050014003465051183003606500031015433585313AUA.120160203174601.0721219t19641963nyu b 000 0 eng  a 62019390  aDLCcDLCdDLC an-us---00aBR 563 .N4bF73 196400a277.31 aFrazier, Edward Franklin,d1894-1962.14aThe Negro church in America. aNew York,bSchocken Booksc[1964] axii, 92 p.c21 cm.0 aStudies in sociology aBibliographical footnotes. aContents: aThe 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 towards existence ; The Negro adapts Christianity to his experience in the New World ; The 'invisible institution' comes into existence. -- 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. -- 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 co-operation ; The church and education ; An arena of political life ; A refuge in a hostile White world. -- Negro religion in the city. The migration to cities ; The secularization of the churches ; Religion in the 'storefront' church ; Negro cults in the city. -- 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. 0aAfrican American churches.