Black religious leadership from the slave community to the Million Man March : flames of fire / edited by Felton O. Best.
| Uniform Title: | Black studies ;
v. 3. |
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| Other Authors: | |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Lewiston, NY :
Edwin Mellen Press,
[1998], ©1998.
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| Series: | Black studies ;
v. 3. |
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| Physical Description: | 262 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- The paradox of embedded leadership: Black religious leaders as followers, pastors, and prophets / Harold E. Massey
- Notes on the typologies and political styles of Black leaders in America / Nannetta Durnell
- Sending up some timber: elderly slaves and religious leadership in the antebellum slave community / Stacey K. Close
- When Black gods preached on earth: the heavenly appeals of Prophet Cherry, Daddy Grace, and Father Divine / Benjamin Sevitch
- Father Divine's Peace Mission movement in the Great Depression / Benjamin Sevitch
- The AME Church and American politics / Larry Little
- One church, indivisible: the political structure of the AME / Larry Little
- Breaking the gender barrier: African-American women and leadership in Black holiness-pentecostal churches 1890-present / Felton O. Best
- For strangers, unborn babes, uncreated worlds: the mission of Malcolm X / Stephen R. Morris
- National news magazines portrayal of the Reverend Jesse Jackson as a mythical hero during the 1988 U.S. presidential campaign / Nannetta Durnell
- How should Black leadership respond to Farrakhan's attempt to legitimize his leadership in Black America? / Clarence Taylor
- The political dilemma of the Reverend Al Sharpton / Clarence Taylor
- Black church politics and the Million Man March / William E. Nelson Jr.