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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785027903321

Autore

Dickerson Dennis C. <1949->

Titolo

African American preachers and politics [[electronic resource] ] : the Careys of Chicago / / Dennis C. Dickerson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, MS, : University Press of Mississippi, 2010

ISBN

1-62103-087-3

1-282-65439-X

9786612654398

1-60473-428-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Disciplina

270.092

B

Soggetti

African Americans - Illinois - Chicago - Politics and government

African American clergy - Political activity - Illinois - Chicago

African American clergy - Illinois - Chicago

Chicago (Ill.) Politics and government To 1950

Chicago (Ill.) Politics and government 1951-

Chicago (Ill.) Race relations

Chicago (Ill.) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Genesis in Georgia : the Careys in ministry and politics -- Pulpit and politics in Chicago : the ministry of Archibald J. Carey, Sr. -- Immersed in church and state : Archibald J. Carey, Sr. and religion in the public square -- Leadership and lineage : the rise of Archibald J. Carey, Jr. -- Doing public theology : Archibald J. Carey, Jr. and the ministry of politics -- Plant my feet on higher ground : Archibald J. Carey, Jr. and the national GOP -- Background benefactor : Archibald J. Carey, Jr. and the civil rights movement.

Sommario/riassunto

During most of the twentieth century, Archibald J. Carey, Sr. (1868-1931) and Archibald J. Carey, Jr. (1908-1981), father and son, exemplified a blend of ministry and politics that many African American religious leaders pursued. Their sacred and secular concerns merged in



efforts to improve the spiritual and material well-being of their congregations. But as political alliances became necessary, both wrestled with moral consequences and varied outcomes. Both were ministers to Chicago's largest African Methodist Episcopal Church congregations- the senior Carey as a bishop, and the junior Carey