New Day Begun: African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America

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Title: New Day Begun : African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America

Contributor: Baldwin, Lewis [MitwirkendeR]; Baldwin, Lewis [Other]; Calhoun-Brown, Allison [MitwirkendeR]; Calhoun-Brown, Allison [Other]; Daniels, David D [MitwirkendeR]; Fluker, Walter Earl [MitwirkendeR]; Halisi, C. R. D [MitwirkendeR]; Howard-Pitney, David [MitwirkendeR]; Owens, Michael Leo [MitwirkendeR]; Roberts, Samuel K [MitwirkendeR]; Ryden, David [MitwirkendeR]; Smidt, Corwin [MitwirkendeR]; Smidt, Corwin [Other]; Smith, R. Drew [MitwirkendeR]; Smith, R. Drew [HerausgeberIn]

imprint: Durham: Duke University Press, [2003]
[Online-Ausgabe]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (322 p); 29 illus

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822384793

ISBN: 9780822384793

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Keywords: African American churches History 20th century ; Christianity and politics History 20th century United States ; Christianity and politics United States History 20th century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Type of reproduction: [Online-Ausgabe]

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Footnote: In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web

Description: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: -- PART I Institutional Characteristics, Historical Contexts, and Black Church Civic Involvements -- 1. Revisiting the ‘‘All-Comprehending Institution’’: Historical Reflections on the Public Roles of Black Churches -- 2.What a Fellowship: Civil Society, African American Churches, and Public Life -- 3. System Confidence, Congregational Characteristics, and Black Church Civic Engagement -- PART II Black Churches and Normative Assessments of the American Political Context -- 4. ‘‘To Form a More Perfect Union’’: African Americans and American Civil Religion -- 5. Recognition, Respectability, and Loyalty: Black Churches and the Quest for Civility -- 6. No Respect of Persons? Religion, Churches, and Gender Issues in the African American Community -- 7. ‘‘Doing All the Good We Can’’: The Political Witness of African American Holiness and Pentecostal Churches in the Post–Civil Rights Era -- 8. Blyden’s Ghost: African American Christianity and Racial Republicanism -- PART III Black Churches and ‘‘Faith-Based Initiatives’’ -- 9. Doing Something in Jesus’ Name: Black Churches and Community Development Corporations -- 10. Faith-Based Initiatives and the Constitution: Black Churches, Government, and Social Services Delivery -- 11. On Seducing the Samaritan: The Problematic of Government Aid to Faith-Based Groups -- Appendix -- Contributors -- Index

New Day Begun presents the findings of the first major research project on black churches’ civic involvement since C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya’s landmark study The Black Church in the African American Experience. Since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the scale and scope of African American churches’ civic involvement have changed significantly: the number of African American clergy serving in elective and appointive offices has noticeably increased, as have joint efforts by black churches and government agencies to implement policies and programs. Filling a vacuum in knowledge about these important developments, New Day Begun assesses the social, political, and ecclesiastical factors that have shaped black church responses to American civic and political life since the Civil Rights movement.This collection of essays analyzes the results of an unprecedented survey of nearly 2,000 African American churches across the country conducted by The Public Influences of African-American Churches Project, which is based at Morehouse College in Atlanta. These essays—by political scientists, theologians, ethicists, and others—draw on the survey findings to analyze the social, historical, and institutional contexts of black church activism and to consider the theological and moral imperatives that have shaped black church approaches to civic life—including black civil religion and womanist and afrocentric critiques. They also look at a host of faith-based initiatives addressing economic development and the provision of social services. New Day Begun presents necessary new interpretations of how black churches have changed—and been changed by—contemporary American political culture.Contributors. Lewis Baldwin, Allison Calhoun-Brown, David D. Daniels III, Walter Earl Fluker, C.R.D. Halisi, David Howard-Pitney, Michael Leo Owens, Samuel Roberts, David Ryden, Corwin Smidt, R. Drew Smith

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