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I have entitled this essay “The ‘American Dilemma’ in the Life and Scholarship of C. Eric Lincoln” because an examination of either his life or his scholarship makes it abundantly clear that the one cannot be separated from the other.
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Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and American Democracy (New York: Harper, 1944).
C. Eric Lincoln, My Face Is Black (Boston: Beacon Press, 1961), 1.
C. Eric Lincoln, Race, Religion, and the Continuing American Dilemma (New York: Hill and Wang, 1984), p. vii.
Richard E. Wentz, Religion in the New World: The Shaping of Religious Traditions in the United States (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990), pp. 197–198.
Wilson Jeremiah Wilson, Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms: Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982), pp. 30–31.
David Howard-Pitney, The Afro-American Jeremiad: Appeals for Justice in America (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990), p. 15.
C. Eric Lincoln, “Contemporary Black Religion: In Search of a Sociology,” The Journal of the I.T.C. 5, no. 2 (spring 1978): 90.
C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya, The Black Church in the African American Experience (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1990), p. 3.
C. Eric Lincoln, ed., Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Profile (New York: Hill and Yang, 1970, 1984). I was honored that Dr. Lincoln chose to include in the revised edition an essay I had written about Dr. King while a graduate student of Dr. Lincoln’s. This decision, however, was not based solely on the merits of my article. An essay by James Cone was also to be included in the new edition. Inasmuch as Lincoln had mentored both Cone and myself, and knowing of the regard I had for Dr. Cone, Lincoln said he thought it would be appropriate for the two of us to appear in the same book and he proceeded to arrange for that to happen.
C. Eric Lincoln, The Black Church Since Frazier (New York: Schocken Books, 1974), p. 106.
C. Eric Lincoln, “How Like a Gentle Spirit,” in The United Methodist Hymnal (Nashville, TN: The United Methodist Publishing House, 1989).
C. Eric Lincoln, Coming Through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996), p. 157.
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Sawyer, M.R. (2003). The “American Dilemma” in the Life and Scholarship of C. Eric Lincoln. In: Pollard, A.B., Whelchel, L.H. (eds) How Long This Road. Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403981554_4
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