Smart Suits, Tattered Boots (eBook)

Black Ministers Mobilizing the Black Church in the Twenty-First Century

Korie Little Edwards, Michelle Oyakawa (Autoren)

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2022
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-0894-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Explores the complex role that Black religious leaders play-or don't play-in twenty-first-century racial justice effortsDr. Martin Luther King Jr. along with many of his Black religious contemporaries courageously mobilized for freedom, ushering in the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century. Their efforts laid the groundwork for some of the greatest legislative changes in American history. Today, however, there is relatively limited mass mobilization led by Black religious leaders against systemic racism and racial inequality. Why don t we see more Black religious leadership in today s civil rights movements, such as Black Lives Matter?Drawing on fifty-four in-depth interviews with Black religious leaders and civic leaders in Ohio, Korie Litte Edwards and Michelle Oyakawa uncover several reasons, including a move away from engagement with independent Black-led civic groups toward white-controlled faith-based organizations, religious leaders nostalgia for and personal links to the legacy of the civil rights movement, the challenges of organizing around race-based oppression in an allegedly post-racial world, and the hierarchical structure of the Black religious leadership network, which may impede ministers work towards collective activism. Black clergy continue to care deeply about social justice and racial oppression. This book offers important insights into how they approach these issues today, illuminating the social processes that impact when, how, and why they participate in civic action in twenty-first-century America. It reveals the structure and limitations of the Black religious-leader community and its capacity for broad-based mobilization in the post civil rights era.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American • African American Church • African American churches • barack obama • Black Church • black pastor • Black religious leader • Black religious leaders • charismatic leader • civic organizations • Civic Organizing • Civil Rights Movement • Community Organizing • Culture • Evangelicals • Faith Based Community Organizing • FBCO • Frames • Leadership • mobilization • Pastor • Protestant Ethic • Race • racial attitudes • racial identity • racial inequality • Religious leader • religious leaders • Republicans • Social Activism • Social Movements • Social Networks • Voting • whiteness
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-0894-6 / 1479808946
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-0894-6 / 9781479808946