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  • New Day Begun

    African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America

    by Lewis Baldwin, Allison Calhoun-Brown, Corwin Smidt ...
    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: ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Long March Ahead

    African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America

    by Barbara Dianne Savage, Michael Leo Owens, Cathy J. Cohen, Megan E. McLaughlin ...
    Analyzing the extensive data gathered by the Public Influences of African American Churches project, which surveyed nearly two thousand churches across the country, Long March Ahead assesses the public policy activism of black churches since the civil rights movement. Social scientists and clergy consider the churches’ work on a range of policy matters over the past four decades: affirmative ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora

    Edited by William Ackah, Jualynne E. Dodson, R. Drew Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora explores the ways in which religious ideas and beliefs continue to play a crucial role in the lives of people of African descent. The chapters in this volume use historical and contemporary examples to show how people of African descent develop and engage with spiritual rituals, organizations and practices to make sense of their ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Contesting Post-Racialism

    Conflicted Churches in the United States and South Africa

    Edited by R. Drew Smith, William Ackah, Anthony G. Reddie, Rothney S. Tshaka ...
    Contributions by William Ackah, Allan Boesak, Ebony Joy Fitchue, Leah Gaskin Fitchue, Walter Earl Fluker, Forrest E. Harris Sr., Nico Koopman, AnneMarie Mingo, Reggie Nel, Chabo Freddy Pilusa, Anthony G. Reddie, Boitumelo Senokoane, Rothney S. Tshaka, Luci Vaden, Vuyani Vellem, and Cobus van WyngaardAfter the 2008 election and 2012 reelection of Barack Obama as US president and the 1994 election ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • From Every Mountainside

    Black Churches and the Broad Terrain of Civil Rights

    Edited by R. Drew Smith ...
    Essays on the civil rights movement outside the South and since the 1960s.It has become popular to confine discussion of the American civil rights movement to the mid-twentieth-century South. From Every Mountainside contains essays that refuse to bracket the quest for civil rights in this manner, treating the subject as an enduring topic yet to be worked out in American politics and society. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Urban Ministry Reconsidered

    Contexts and Approaches

    Edited by R. Drew Smith, Stephanie Boddie, Ronald E. Peters ...
    Christian ministries often struggle to account for urbanization's growing force, complexities, and reachâ€"and to formulate theologically and sociologically appropriate responses. Urban Ministry Reconsidered features a collection of original essays by leading scholars and practitioners that explores current issues and challenges in urban communities.Together these articles consider how cultural ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Black Churches and Local Politics

    Clergy Influence, Organizational Partnerships, and Civic Empowerment

    by Fredrick C. Harris, Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh, Ronald E. Brown, Mittie Olion Chandler, Carolyn Hartfield, James Jennings, Michael Leo Owens, Alton B. Pollard, R Drew Smith0, Clarence Taylor1, Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs2, Sherri Leronda Wallace3, Ronald Walters4 ...
    This book on black churches and urban politics uses case studies from various cities to examine the strategies and tactics of activist clergy and congregations. These case studies illustrate how black activist clergy and congregations negotiate the political terrains of their respective cities. The cases show that the political culture of a city-whether that culture is shaped by machine politics, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Racialized Health, COVID-19, and Religious Responses

    Black Atlantic Contexts and Perspectives

    Edited by R. Drew Smith, Stephanie C. Boddie, Bertis D. English ...
    Racialized Health, COVID-19, and Religious Responses: Black Atlantic Contexts and Perspectives explores black religious responses to black health concerns amidst persistent race-based health disparities and healthcare inequities. This cutting-edge edited volume provides theoretically and descriptively rich analysis of cases and contexts where race factors strongly in black health outcomes and ... Read more

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  • How to Fight Racism

    Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice

    by Jemar Tisby ...
    Winner of the 2022 ECPA Christian Book Award for Faith & CultureHow do we effectively confront racial injustice? We need to move beyond talking about racism and start equipping ourselves to fight against it.In this follow-up to the New York Times Bestseller the Color of Compromise, Jemar Tisby offers an array of actionable items to confront racism. How to Fight Racism introduces a simple framework ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Liberating Black Church History

    Making It Plain

    by Juan M. Floyd-Thomas ...
    No serious scholar in biblical studies today can introduce students to his or her field without taking into account the contributions of African American scholarship. The long traditions of biblical interpretation in the Black Church, and the innovative research and writing performed by African American scholars in recent years are now essential components of a critical study of the Bible.Up to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Faith, Morality, and Civil Society

    by David Oki Ahearn, Professor Michael D. Bailey, John P. Bartkowski, Steven P. Brown, Beverly Gaddy, Joshua P. Hochschild, Kevin Pybas, Helen A. Regis, Brad Lowell Stone, Alan Wolfe, Alan Woolfolk ...
    Series series Applications of Political Theory
    In this rich collection of essays, editors Dale McConkey and Peter Augustine Lawler explore the contributions that religious faith and morality can make to a civil society. Though the level of religious expression has remained high in the United States, the shift from traditional religious beliefs to a far more individualized style of faith has led many to contend that no faith commitment, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Black Church in the African American Experience

    by C. Eric Lincoln, Lawrence H. Mamiya ...
    Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black Church in the African American Experience, based on a ten-year study, is the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and the first major field study on the subject since the 1930s.Drawing on interviews with more than 1 ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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