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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810827503321

Autore

Dillard Angela D. <1965->

Titolo

Faith in the city : preaching radical social change in Detroit / / Angela D. Dillard ; with a foreword by Charles G. Adams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2007

ISBN

1-282-44461-1

9786612444616

0-472-02416-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Disciplina

323.1196/0730774340904

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights - Michigan - Detroit - History - 20th century

African Americans - Michigan - Detroit - Social conditions - 20th century

Civil rights movements - Michigan - Detroit - 20th century

Clergy - Political activity - Michigan - Detroit - History - 20th century

Civil rights - Religious aspects - Christianity - History - 20th century

Detroit (Mich.) Social conditions 20th century

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 (p. 307-363) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Evolving faith : Rev. Charles A. Hill and the making of a Black religious radical -- True versus false religion : the labor-civil rights community and the struggle to define a progressive faith, 1935-41 -- Explosive faith : the politics of religion in the arsenal of democracy -- To fulfill yesterday's promise : anticommunism and the demise of the early civil rights community -- The freedom struggle North and South : coalition politics and the foundation of a second civil rights community in Detroit -- Black faith : the Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., Black Christian nationalism, and the second civil rights community in Detroit -- Conclusion: Motown bs Burning, Jesus Is Black, and the struggle continues.