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This chapter explores the growth of black churches after the Civil War, and the effort of these churches to use available resources to address the spiritual and political needs of African Americans. Such work, often framed in terms of the Social Gospel, involved the development of educational outlets and community organizations meant to address a range of concerns and needs. It also gives attention to social reform activities as well as efforts of African American clergy to enter US politics. Churches, in this chapter, point to the larger context of competing faith claims also interested in spiritual and material well-being.
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William E. Montgomery, Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African-American Church in the South, 1865–1900 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University), 97–98.
C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya, The Black Church in the African American Experience (Durham: Duke University Press, 1990), 25;
Paul Harvey, Freedom’s Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2008), 8.
Albert Raboteau, Slave Religion: The “Invisible Institution” in the Antebellum South (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978), 209; Harvey, Freedom’s Coming, 8.
See, for instance, Cheryl Sanders, Saints in Exile: The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
John M. Giggie, After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875–1915 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), chapter 1.
Milton C. Sernett, Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997), 4.
Gayraud S. Wilmore, Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Interpretation of the Religious History of African Americans, 3rd Edition (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1998), 171.
Reverdy C. Ransom, “A Program for the Negro,” in Anthony B. Pinn, editor. Making the Gospel Plain: The Writings of Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1999), 195.
Quoted in Anthony B. Pinn, The Black Church in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2002), 14.
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Pinn, A.B. (2013). Growing a Religious Agenda for Public Life. In: What Has the Black Church to Do with Public Life?. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137376954_2
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