Other Black Church - Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom

The Other Black Church places Father Divine, Charles Mason of COGIC, and Albert Cleage in conversation with the long history of Black theology and Black religious studies, and it suggests that alternative Christian movements are essential for thinking about African American critiques of and responses to the failures of US-based democracy.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Canonical Black Body
Chapter 2: Bound No More: Charles Mason, Black Scriptures and the Working-Class Body
Chapter 3: Deracinated Democracy and the Black Divine
Chapter 4: The Whole Body: Alternative Christian Economic Self-Determination and the Black Madonna
Chapter 5: Toward Embodied Freedom: Crisis and Collaborations on the Margins of the Black Church Tradition
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds

Summary

The Other Black Church places Father Divine, Charles Mason of COGIC, and Albert Cleage in conversation with the long history of Black theology and Black religious studies, and it suggests that alternative Christian movements are essential for thinking about African American critiques of and responses to the failures of US-based democracy.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2022
• EAN: 9781978704824
• ISBN: 978-1-978704-82-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ethnic Studies, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics, Christianity, Ethnic groups & multicultural studies, Social discrimination & inequality, Religious ethics, Relating to African American people, Social discrimination & equal treatment, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Black & Asian Studies