Christianity on Trial African-American Religious Thought Before and after Black Power

Name: Christianity on Trial African-American Religious Thought Before and after Black Power
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ISBN: 9781597525565

ISBN-10: 1597525561

ISBN-13: 9781597525565

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Authors: Mark L. Chapman

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Since slavery times African-American religious thinkers have struggled to answer this question: Is Christianity a source of liberation or a source of oppression? In a study that reviews representative thinkers over the last fifty years, Mark Chapman reviews the variety of ways that African-Americans have addressed this problem and how it has informed their work and lives.Beginning with Benjamin Mays, the leading Negro theologian of the post-World War II period, Chapman explores the critical implications of this question right up to the present day. The pivotal turning point in this period is the emergence of the Black Power movement in the 1960s. Sparked in part by the challenge of the…

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List price: $30.00
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 2/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Mark L. Chapman is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Chair of the Department at Fordham University.