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God and government in the ghetto : the politics of church-state collaboration in Black America /
In recent years, as government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods' poorest residents. This collaboration, activist churches explain, is a way of enacting their fait...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Morality and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In recent years, as government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods' poorest residents. This collaboration, activist churches explain, is a way of enacting their faith and helping their neighborhoods. But as Michael Leo Owens demonstrates in God and Government in the Ghetto, this alliance also serves as a means for black clergy to reaffirm their political leadership and reposition moral authority in black civil society. Drawing on both survey data and fieldwork in Ne. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 310 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-292) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226642086 0226642089 |