The Negro church in America.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Studies in sociologyPublication details: New York, Schocken Books [1964]Description: xii, 92 p. 21 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 277.3
LOC classification:
  • BR 563 .N4 F73 1964
Contents:
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.
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Bibliographical footnotes.

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.

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