A sociology of Black clergy in the state of Illinois : activism and acquiescence in the post-civil rights generation /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Weissinger, Sandra Ellen.
Imprint:	Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	African Americans -- Religion. Civil rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. African Americans -- Civil rights. Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Civil rights movement -- United States. African American churches -- Political activity. African American clergy -- Political activity. Christianity and politics -- United States. African American clergy -- Political activity. African Americans -- Civil rights. African Americans -- Religion. Christianity and politics. Civil rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12868903

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Other authors / contributors:	Zerai, Assata.
ISBN:	9780773417809 077341780X 9780773414990 0773414991
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	A first time study that considers the diverse conditions that affect the ministry of Black clergy in Illinois.
Other form:	Print version: Weissinger, Sandra Ellen. Sociology of Black clergy in the state of Illinois. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2011 9780773414990

Table of Contents:

"Good people participate in systems that produce bad consequences all the time": a sociological rationale for studying Black clergy and the reproduction of inequality
In the field, but out of place: the emotional labor of ethnographic fieldwork
For the love of money, for the love of Jesus: backstage on the set of the good works show
"We will not sell God out!"
Straining to reach the enter
Everything is everything: beyond biography, socialization, and context towards remembering hope, power, and the possibility of deliverance.

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