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SOMETHING WITHIN
RELIGION IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL ACTIVISM |
| By: |
Frederick Harris |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£26.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
019514595X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195145953 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2001 |
| Pages: |
340 |
| Description: |
Frederick Harris wades into a perenially contentious debate: the degree to which religious experience is central to African-American political involvement and success. For the first time applying the techniques of a cultural resource model to this question, Harris makes a strong case for the formative influence of religion, both as a source of strength and often determinative in practical political consequences. Harris' argument overturns a large body of quantitativeresearch on political activism, principally in the Chicago religious community. |
| Synopsis: |
One of the first book-length studies in decades solely devoted to religion and African-American political activism, Something Within explores 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." |
| Illustrations: |
3 halftones, 16 line illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Winner of the V.O. Key Book Award for the Best Book in Southern |
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