The Black Church in America: African American Christian Spirituality (Religious Life in America)
Book Details
Author(s)Michael Battle
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN140511892X
ISBN-139781405118927
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Sales Rank1,479,615
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
This book gives readers a broad understanding of the Black Church in America and a sense of its uniqueness in the wider world.
- Explores the history of the Black Church in America, its African roots, beliefs, practices, politics, and contemporary moral dilemmas
- Argues that in the Black Church, individual and communal destiny are bound together
- The author is a Priest in the Episcopal Church and teaches spirituality and Black Church studies at Duke University.
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