The Black church in the African American experience /
Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black Church in the African American Experience, based on a ten-year study, is the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1990.
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Colección: | Duke backfile
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black Church in the African American Experience, based on a ten-year study, is the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and the first major field study on the subject since the 1930s. Drawing on interviews with more than 1,800 black clergy in both urban and rural settings, combined with a comprehensive historical overview of seven mainline black denominations, C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya present an analysis of. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 519 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-500) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780822381648 0822381648 0822310570 9780822310570 |