A sociology of Black clergy in the state of Illinois [electronic resource] : activism and acquiescence in the post-civil rights generation / Sandra Ellen Weissinger with foreword by Assata Zerai.
Publication details: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (242 p.) : illISBN:- 9780773417809 (electronic bk.)
- 077341780X (electronic bk.)
- African Americans -- Religion
- Civil rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Civil rights movement -- United States
- African American churches -- Political activity
- African American clergy -- Political activity
- Christianity and politics -- United States
- RELIGION / Christianity / History
- 277.3/08208996073 23
- BR563.N4 W43 2011eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index.
"Good people participate in systems that produce bad consequences all the time": a sociological rationale for studying Black clergy and the reproduction of inequality -- In the field, but out of place: the emotional labor of ethnographic fieldwork -- For the love of money, for the love of Jesus: backstage on the set of the good works show -- "We will not sell God out!" -- Straining to reach the enter -- Everything is everything: beyond biography, socialization, and context towards remembering hope, power, and the possibility of deliverance.
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