Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought Church

by Darnise Martin and Darnise C. Martin

Beyond Christianity draws on rich ethnographic work in a Religious Science church in Oakland, California, to illuminate the ways a group of African Americans has adapted a religion typically thought of as white to fit their needs and circumstances.
This predominantly African American congregation is an anomalous phenomenon for both Religious Science and African American religious studies. It stands at the intersection of New Thought doctrine,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081475693X
• ISBN13: 9780814756935
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"