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In English
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Description:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Reformation of the "Negro Church" -- 2. Illusions of Black Religion -- 3. In Pursuit of Pentecost -- 4. The Advent to Civil Rights -- 5. Southern Black Liberal Protestantism -- 6. A Religious Rebellion -- 7. Reconcilable Differences -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Even before the emergence of the civil rights movement, African American religion and progressive politics were assumed to be inextricably intertwined. 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