The Frazier, Edward Franklin 1894-1962 creator text bibliography nyu New York Schocken Books [1964] 1964 1963 monographic eng

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xii, 92 p. 21 cm. Contents: 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 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. Bibliographical footnotes. n-us--- African American churches BR 563 .N4 F73 1964 277.3 62019390 DLC 721219 20160203174601.0 3585313