The Black Church Revisited: Toward a New Millennium DuBoisian Mode of Inquiry

Despite predictions to the contrary, religion continues to play an integral role in the lives of Americans in general and African Americans in particular. This essay focuses on the place of the contemporary Black Church1 and dynamics relative to relevance, semi-involuntariness, and consumerism as to...

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Main Author: Barnes, Sandra L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 2014
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 75, Issue: 4, Pages: 607-621
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Summary:Despite predictions to the contrary, religion continues to play an integral role in the lives of Americans in general and African Americans in particular. This essay focuses on the place of the contemporary Black Church1 and dynamics relative to relevance, semi-involuntariness, and consumerism as topics for continued sociological research on Black religious life in the spirit of scholarly inquiry by W. E. B. DuBois.
ISSN:1759-8818
Contains:Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/socrel/sru056