The Negro Church in America/The Black Church Since Frazier

by FRAZIER, E. FRANKLIN

• ISBN13: 9780805203875
• ISBN10: 0805203877
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1974-01-13
• Publisher: Schocken

Summary

Frazier's study of the black church and an essay by Lincoln arguing that the civil rights movement saw the splintering of the traditional black church and the creation of new roles for religion.

Author Biography

E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER (1894-1962) was considered to be one of the most influential African-American sociologists of the twentieth century. His The Negro Church in America (published posthumously) was groundbreaking in its study of the changes in the black church after the Civil Rights Movement. He wrote nine books and over one hundred essays.

C. ERIC LINCOLN (1924-2000) was an African-American scholar who taught all over the United States. His novel, The Avenue, Clayton City, won the Lillian Smith Book Award for Best Southern Fiction in 1988 and the International Black Writers' Alice Browning Award in 1989. He was an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and founding president of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters. He was friends with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Alex Haley. In 1990, he was cited by Pope John Paul II for "scholarly service to the church."

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 3
A Memoir	p. 5
Introduction	p. 7
The Religion of the Slaves
The Break with the African Background	p. 9
The Loss of Social Cohesion	p. 11
The Christian Religion Provides a New Basis of Social Cohesion	p. 14
Christianity: A New Orientation Toward Existence	p. 17
The Negro Adapts Christianity to His Experience in the New World	p. 19
The "Invisible Institution" Comes into Existence	p. 23
The Institutional Church of the Free Negroes
The Negroes Who Were Free Before the Civil War	p. 26
Relations of Free Negroes and Whites in the Churches	p. 28
Conflict over the Question of Status	p. 31
The Free Negroes Establish Their Own Churches	p. 33
The Negro Church: A Nation Within a Nation
The "Invisible Institution" Merges with the Institutional Church	p. 35
The Church as an Agency of Social Control	p. 37
The Church and Economic Cooperation	p. 40
The Church and Education	p. 43
An Arena of Political Life	p. 47
A Refuge in a Hostile White World	p. 50
Negro Religion in the City
The Migration to Cities	p. 52
The Secularization of the Churches	p. 54
Religion in the "Storefront" Church	p. 58
Negro Cults in the City	p. 60
The Negro Church and Assimilation
The Walls Came Tumbling Down	p. 72
The Church Is No Longer a Refuge	p. 75
The Gospel Singers	p. 77
The Religion of the New Middle Class	p. 80
Conclusion	p. 86
Notes	p. 91
Index	p. 209
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