Mighty like a river : the black church and social reform /

Billingsley, Andrew,

Mighty like a river : the black church and social reform / [print] Andrew Billingsley. - New York : Oxford University Press, (c)1999. - xiv, 262 pages ; 25 cm.



Storm is passing over: the Black church in perspective -- If tombstones could talk: the evolution of the Black church in Savannah -- General Sherman and the Black church -- Crisis of emancipation and reconstruction in Savannah -- Rev. Ralph Mark Gilbert and the civil rights movement in Savannah -- First African Baptist Church, Richmond: seedbed of social reform -- New-time religion -- Black church and the male youth crisis -- Black church confronts the HawaiiV/AIDS crisis -- Tale of two cities: Black churches in Denver and Atlanta -- Often seen, seldom called: the legacy of Jerena Lee -- Twelve gates to the city -- Unashamedly Black and unapologetically Christian -- One more river to cross: the Black church faces the future.



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African American churches.

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