The Negro Church in America

by E. Franklin Frazier and C. Eric Lincoln

According to C. Eric Lincoln, the turbulent decade of the Sixties witnessed the death of the Negro Church. In its place, the offspring of the conflict between "conscienceless power" and "powerless conscience," is the Black Church. No longer the dependent bastion of Black prudence, Black institutional religion -- whether traditional, pentecostal, or Muslim -- has assumed a new role of leadership in its centuries-old quest for social and spiritual justice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805235086
• ISBN13: 9780805235081
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
• Length: 216 Pages