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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $24.98
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Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: C. Eric Lincoln::Lawrence H. Mamiya
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 277.30808996073
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Publication Date: 1990-12
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Reading Level: 536
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Description: Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black Church in the African American Experience, based on a ten-year study, is the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and the first major field study on the subject since the 1930s.
Drawing on interviews with more than 1,800 black clergy in both urban and rural settings, combined with a comprehensive historical overview of seven mainline black denominations, C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya present an analysis of the Black Church as it relates to the history of African Americans and to contemporary black culture. In examining both the internal structure of the Church and the reactions of the Church to external, societal changes, the authors provide important insights into the Church’s relationship to politics, economics, women, youth, and music.
Among other topics, Lincoln and Mamiya discuss the attitude of the clergy toward women pastors, the reaction of the Church to the civil rights movement, the attempts of the Church to involve young people, the impact of the black consciousness movement and Black Liberation Theology and clergy, and trends that will define the Black Church well into the next century.
This study is complete with a comprehensive bibliography of literature on the black experience in religion. Funding for the ten-year survey was made possible by the Lilly Endowment and the Ford Foundation.
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Price: $11.99
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Sale: $10.79
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Manufacturer: BiblioBazaar
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Drusilla Dunjee Houston
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Publisher: BiblioBazaar
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200
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Publication Date: 2007-11-29
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Reading Level: 190
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Description: A pioneering work of Afrocentric history. BOOK I NATIONS OF THE CUSHITE EMPIRE. MARVELOUS FACTS FROM AUTHENTIC RECORDS.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $7.42
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Manufacturer: LifeBridge Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dixon, James
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Publisher: LifeBridge Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 261
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Publication Date: 2007-05-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: This hardhitting, welldocumented book is an urgent call for business,
government, education and the church to declare a state of emergency
for African Americans. Says the author, “The black community can no longer
tolerate the scourge of crime, AIDS, poverty and shattered family structures.”
Most important, this book provides a roadmap for individuals and communities to rise from their present circumstances and become the
people God destined them to be.
The author is on a crusade to rescue Black America from impending
disaster by sounding the alarm concerning the perishing predicament of
his beloved race. In this book, he offers real solutions that are grounded in
divine wisdom and guided by proven values. The contents of this book are
sure to frustrate the comfortable and fuel the committed.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $24.94
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Manufacturer: Black Classic Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Yosef A. A. ben-Jochannan
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Publisher: Black Classic Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8924
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Publication Date: 1993-01
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Reading Level: 408
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Price: $14.99
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Sale: $6.50
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Albert J. Raboteau
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200.8996073
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Publication Date: 2001-02-22
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Reading Level: 184
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Reading Level: Young Adult
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Description: Throughout African-American history, religion has been indelibly intertwined with the fight against intolerance and racial prejudice. Martin Luther King, Jr.-America's best-known champion of civil liberties-was a Baptist minister. Father Divine, a fiery preacher who established a large following in the 1920s and 1930s, convinced his disciples that he could cure not only disease and infirmity, but also poverty and racism.
An in-depth examination of African-American history and religion, this comprehensive and lively book provides panoramic coverage of the black religious and social experience in America. Renowned historian Albert J. Raboteau traces the subtle blending of African tribal customs with the powerful Christian establishment, the migration to cities, the growth of Islam, and the 200-year fight for freedom and identity which was so often centered around African-American churches. From the African Methodist Episcopal Church to the Nation of Islam and from the first African slaves to Louis Farrakhan, this far-reaching book chronicles the evolution of an important and influential component of our religious and historical heritage. African American Religion combines meticulously researched historical facts with a fast-paced, engaging narrative that will appeal to readers of any age.
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $9.55
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Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ted Gioia
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 782.421593
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Publication Date: 2006-02
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: All societies have relied on music to transform the experience of work. Song accompanied the farmer’s labors, calmed the herder’s flock, and set in motion the spinner’s wheel. Today this tradition continues. Music blares on the shop floor; song accompanies transactions in the retail store; the radio keeps the trucker going on the long-distance haul.
Now Ted Gioia, author of several acclaimed books on the history of jazz, tells the story of work songs from prehistoric times to the present. Vocation by vocation, Gioia focuses attention on the rhythms and melodies that have attended tasks such as the cultivation of crops, the raising and lowering of sails, the swinging of hammers, the felling of trees. In an engaging, conversational writing style, he synthesizes a breathtaking amount of material, not only from songbooks and recordings but also from travel literature, historical accounts, slave narratives, folklore, labor union writings, and more. He draws on all of these to describe how workers in societies around the world have used music to increase efficiency, measure time, relay commands, maintain focus, and alleviate drudgery.
At the same time, Gioia emphasizes how work songs often soar beyond utilitarian functions. The heart-wringing laments of the prison chain gang, the sailor’s shanties, the lumberjack’s ballads, the field hollers and corn-shucking songs of the American South, the pearl-diving songs of the Persian Gulf, the rich mbube a cappella singing of South African miners: Who can listen to these and other songs borne of toil and hard labor without feeling their sweep and power? Ultimately, Work Songs, like its companion volume Healing Songs, is an impassioned tribute to the extraordinary capacity of music to enter into day-to-day lives, to address humanity’s deepest concerns and most heartfelt needs.
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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $9.99
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Manufacturer: Pilgrim Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Vashti M. McKenzie
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Publisher: Pilgrim Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 262.14082
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Publication Date: 1996-07
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Reading Level: 134
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Description: This is a groundbreaking book written by one of the nation's leading African American clergywomen, Reverend Vashti McKenzie, who provides a cogent historical, theological, and biblical overview of female leadership in the church. McKenzie provides a model based on the "Women Surviving in Ministry" project that promotes fellowship, support and an environment conducive to learning and dialogue among peers and mentors.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $8.26
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Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Joseph M. Murphy
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Publisher: Beacon Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299.67
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Publication Date: 1993-04-01
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Reading Level: 189
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Description: "Informative and a joy to read. . . . It strikes a balance between participation and observation in an explanation of Santería that will please believer and scholar alike." —Shaman's Drum
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $3.90
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Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Cornel West
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Publisher: Beacon Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 1999-01-27
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Harvard professor Cornel West issues "a kind of wake-up call to each of us,"asserting that "Black America sits on the brink of collective disaster." In this collection of eight question-and-answer interviews, West seeks ideas for inspiring and reinvigorating black America. Actor-singer Harry Belafonte talks about his influences; politician Bill Bradley urges each of us to confront race in our daily lives; poet Maya Angelou makes the point that "one other word for hope is love"; and trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis discusses both music and the need to rebuild black communities. The book is a project of the Obsidian Society, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to improving conditions for black Americans. Profits from the book will benefit the organization.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $11.59
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Manufacturer: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Barbara A. Holmes
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Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248.3408996073
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Publication Date: 2004-07
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Reading Level: 212
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Description: Holmes's research—through oral histories, church records, and written accounts—details not only ways in which contemplative experience is built into African American collective worship but also the legacy of African monasticism, a history of spiritual exemplars, and unique meditative worship practices.
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