Your Spirits Walk Beside Us The Politics of Black Religion

Name: Your Spirits Walk Beside Us The Politics of Black Religion
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ISBN: 9780674066274

ISBN-10: 0674066278

ISBN-13: 9780674066274

Edition: 2008

Authors: Barbara Dianne Savage

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Even before the emergence of the civil rights movement with black churches at its center, African American religion and progressive politics were assumed to be inextricably intertwined. In her revelatory book, Barbara Savage counters this assumption with the story of a highly diversified religious community whose debates over engagement in the struggle for racial equality were as vigorous as they were persistent. Rather than inevitable allies, black churches and political activists have been uneasy and contentious partners.From the 1920s on, some of the best African American minds—W. E. B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Benjamin Mays, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles S.…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/22/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 0.858

Roy Morris, Jr., is the author of numerous books, including Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain.Barbara Dianne Savage is Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania.