Fredrick C. Harris

Something Within

Religion in African-American Political Activism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

One of the first book-length studies devoted to religion and African-American political activism in a generation, Something Within explores how Afro-Christianity, in various ways, promotes the political activism of African-Americans. Combining ethnography, history, contextual analysis, and survey research, this book illustrates the participatory effects of Afro-Christianity by examining its institutional, psychological, and cultural influences. Going beyond the opiate-inspiration debate that has dominated research on the subject, Author Fredrick C. Harris advances a new theory of religion as a political resource for a "civic culture in opposition."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9780195120332
• ISBN-10: 0195120337
• Artikelnr.: 22426964

Inhaltsangabe

* I.: Introduction
* II.: When a Little Becomes Much: Religious Resources in Action
* III.: Prophetic Fragments: Macro and Micro Foundations of Religious
Resources
* IV.: Religion Reconsidered: Black Protest and Electoral Activism in
an Age of Transformation
* V.: Blessed Assurance: Religion, Personal Empowerment, and
African-American Political Activism
* VI.: Rock in a Weary Land: Religion Institutions and African-American
Political Activism
* VII.: Ties That Bind: Organizational and Psychological Dynamics of
Religious Resources
* VIII.: The Last Shall Be First: Religion, Oppositional Culture, and
African-American Political Mobilization
* IX.: In My Father's House: Religion and Gender in African-American
Political Life
* X.: (Epilogue) It Remains to be Seen: Stability and Change in
Religion and African-American Politics
* Appendices
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index