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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452832703321

Autore

Taylor Clarence

Titolo

Black religious intellectuals : the fight for equality from Jim Crow to the twenty-first century / / Clarence Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

9780203616635

0203616634

9781136061868

113606186X

9781136061783

1136061789

9781299478473

1299478476

1-136-06170-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Crosscurrents in African American history

Disciplina

200/.92/396073

B

Soggetti

African American clergy

African American intellectuals

African American leadership

African American clergy - Political activity

African Americans - Civil rights

African Americans - Religion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Black intellectuals : a more inclusive perspective -- Sticking to the ship : manhood, fraternity, and the religious world view of A. Philip Randolph -- Expanding the boundaries of politics : the various voices of the Black religious community of Brooklyn, New York before and during the Cold War -- The Pentecostal preacher as public intellectual and activist : the extraordinary leadership of Bishop



Smallwood Williams -- The Reverend John Culmer and the politics of Black representation in Miami, Florida -- The Reverend Theodore Gibson and the significance of Cold War liberalism in the fight for citizenship -- "A natural born leader" : the politics of the Rev. Al Sharpton -- The evolving spiritual and political leadership of Louis Farrakhan : from Allah's masculine warrior to ecumenical sage -- Ella Baker, Pauli Murray, and the challenge to male patriarchy.

Sommario/riassunto

Clarence Taylor shows how black leaders were able to carve out a space for religion as part of a progressive political agenda and reveals the complex and innovative ways that black religious notions were continually reconstructed to accommodate the communities they served.