Smith New Day Begun

African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8479-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 322 Seiten

Reihe: The public influences of African American churches

This collection discusses African American churches’ involvement in post-civil rights era political culture, with regard to faith-based services, black nationalism, evangelism, and community development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, R. Drew

Weitere Mitwirkende

Baldwin, Lewis

Calhoun-Brown, Allison

Smidt, Corwin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Introduction: Black Churches Within a Changing Civic Culture in America / R. Drew Smith 1

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 / Lewis Baldwin 15

2. What a Fellowship: Civil Society, African American Churches, and Public Life / Allison Calhoun-Brown 39

3. System Confidence, Congregational Characteristics, and Black Church Civic Engagement / R. Drew Smith and Corwin Smidt 58

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 / David Howard-Pitney 89

5. Recognition, Respectability, and Loyalty: Black Churches and the Quest for Civility / Walter Earl Fluker 113

6. No Respect of Persons? Religion, Churches, and Gender Issues in the African American Community / Allison Calhoun-Brown 142

7. “Doing All the Good We Can": The Political Witness of African American Holiness and Pentecostal Churches in the Post-Civil Rights Era / David D. Daniels III 164

8. Blyden's Ghost: African American Christianity and Racial Republicanism / C. R. D. Halisi 183

Part III. Black Churches and “Faith-Based Initiatives"

9. Doing Something in Jesus' Name: Black Churches and Community Development Corporations / Michael Leo Owens 215

10. Faith-Based Initiatives and the Constitution: Black Churches, Government, and Social Services Delivery / David Ryden 248

11. On Seducing the Samaritan: The Problematic of Government Aid to Faith-Based Groups / Samuel K. Roberts 278

Appendix 293

Contributors 305

Index 307

Über Autor(innen)

R. Drew Smith is Director of the Public Influences of African-American Churches Project and Scholar-in-Residence at The Leadership Center at Morehouse College in Atlanta. He is an Advisory Board Member for the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics at Calvin College and for the Pew Civic Partnership. He has a Ph.D. in political science and a masters degree in divinity from Yale University.