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.
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