AuthorLincoln, C. Eric (Charles Eric), 1924-2000.
TitleThe Black church in the African-American experience / C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya.
PublishedDurham : Duke University Press, 1990.
Descriptionxvi, 519 p ; 23 cm.
ISBN0-8223-1057-0
ISBN0-8223-1073-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bib. NoteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 469-500) and index.
Formatted NoteContents: Religious dimension : toward a sociology of Black churches -- Black Baptists : the first Black churches in America -- Black Methodists : the institutionalization of Black religious independence -- Black Pentecostals : The spiritual legacy with a Black beginning -- In the receding shadow of the plantation : a profile of rural clergy and churches in the Black Belt -- In the streets of the Black metropolis : a profile of Black urban clergy and churches -- New Black revolution : the Black Consciousness Movement and the Black church -- "Now is the time!" : the Black church, politics, and civil rights militancy -- American dream and the American dilemma : the Black church and economics -- Pulpit and the pew : the Black church and women -- "In my mother's house" : the Black church and young people -- Performed word : music and the Black church -- Black church and the twenty-first century : challenges to the Black church.
SubjectsAfrican American churches.
African Americans -- Religion.
United States -- Church history.
Other AuthorsMamiya, Lawrence H.
LC Card Number90-34050
Call Number/Copies 
 WRHS Research Library: BR 563 N393 L73
mq12794: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING]
[Record 7075]