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.
98013875
African American churches.
BR563.B598.M544 1999
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.
98013875
African American churches.
BR563.B598.M544 1999