Weissinger, Sandra Ellen.

A sociology of Black clergy in the state of Illinois activism and acquiescence in the post-civil rights generation / [electronic resource] : Sandra Ellen Weissinger with foreword by Assata Zerai. - Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (242 p.) : ill.

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.

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


Electronic books.

BR563.N4 / W43 2011eb

277.3/08208996073