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."

Titel
Something Within
Untertitel
Religion in African-American Political Activism
EAN
9780198028215
ISBN
978-0-19-802821-5
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Veröffentlichung
26.08.1999
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
13.84 MB
Anzahl Seiten
240
Jahr
1999
Untertitel
Englisch