God and government in the ghetto :: the politics of church-state collaboration in Black America /

In recent years, as government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods' poorest residents. This collaboration, activist churches explain, is a way of enacting their fait...

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1. Verfasser: Owens, Michael Leo
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Schriftenreihe:Morality and society.
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Zusammenfassung:In recent years, as government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods' poorest residents. This collaboration, activist churches explain, is a way of enacting their faith and helping their neighborhoods. But as Michael Leo Owens demonstrates in God and Government in the Ghetto, this alliance also serves as a means for black clergy to reaffirm their political leadership and reposition moral authority in black civil society. Drawing on both survey data and fieldwork in Ne.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 310 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-292) and index.
ISBN:9780226642086
0226642089

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