Negro Church in America/the Black Church since Frazier

Name: Negro Church in America/the Black Church since Frazier
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ISBN: 9780805203875

ISBN-10: 0805203877

ISBN-13: 9780805203875

Edition: 1963

Authors: E. Franklin Frazier, C. Eric Lincoln

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Frazier's study of the black church and an essay by Lincoln arguing that the civil rights movement saw the splintering of the traditional black church and the creation of new roles for religion.

Book details

List price: $12.76
Copyright year: 1963
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/13/1974
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.15" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Preface


A Memoir



Introduction



The Religion of the Slaves


The Break with the African Background


The Loss of Social Cohesion


The Christian Religion Provides a New Basis of Social Cohesion


Christianity: A New Orientation Toward Existence


The Negro Adapts Christianity to His Experience in the New World


The "Invisible Institution" Comes into Existence



The Institutional Church of the Free Negroes


The Negroes Who Were Free Before the Civil War


Relations of Free Negroes and Whites in the Churches


Conflict over the Question of Status


The Free Negroes Establish Their Own Churches



The Negro Church: A Nation Within a Nation


The "Invisible Institution" Merges with the Institutional Church


The Church as an Agency of Social Control


The Church and Economic Cooperation


The Church and Education


An Arena of Political Life


A Refuge in a Hostile White World



Negro Religion in the City


The Migration to Cities


The Secularization of the Churches


Religion in the "Storefront" Church


Negro Cults in the City



The Negro Church and Assimilation


The Walls Came Tumbling Down


The Church Is No Longer a Refuge


The Gospel Singers


The Religion of the New Middle Class


Conclusion


Notes


Index