Something Within Religion in African-American Political Activism

by Harris, Fredrick C.

• ISBN13: 9780195145953
• ISBN10: 019514595X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

One of the first book-length studies in decades solely devoted to religion and African-American political activism,Something Withinexplores how Afro-Christianity encourages political activism among African-Americans. Combining ethnography, history, contextual analysis, and survey research, this book illustrates the participatory effects of Afro-Christianity by examining its institutional, psychological, and cultural influences. Moving beyond the current debates on the subject, Fredrick C. Harris advances a new theory of religion as a political resource for a "civic culture in opposition."

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(12)
When a Little Becomes Much: Religious Resources in Action	12	(15)
Prophetic Fragments: Macro and Micro Foundations of Religious Resources	27	(15)
Religion Reconsidered: Black Protest and Electoral Activism in an Age of Transformation	42	(27)
Blessed Assurance: Religion, Personal Empowerment, and African-American Political Activism	69	(17)
Rock in a Weary Land: Religious Institutions and African-American Political Activism	86	(35)
Ties That Bind: Linking Religion and Intermediary Resources to Political Action	121	(12)
The Last Shall Be First: Religion, Oppositional Culture, and African-American Political Mobilization	133	(21)
In My Father's House: Religion and Gender in African-American Political Life	154	(23)
Epilogue. It Remains to Be Seen: Stability and Change in Religion and African-American Politics	177	(10)
Appendix A	187	(4)
Appendix B	191	(4)
Notes	195	(12)
References	207	(14)
Index	221