God and government in the ghetto : the politics of church-state collaboration in Black America / Michael Leo Owens.

By:

Owens, Michael Leo

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Morality and societyPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 310 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226642086
0226642089

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: God and government in the ghetto.DDC classification:

322/.108996073 22

LOC classification:

BR563.B53 O96 2007eb

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Contents:

The extent and support of African American churches' collaboration with government -- The volition to collaborate with government -- Public policy and Black neighborhood decline -- Faith in action for neighborhood redemption -- Partnering with Caesar -- Acquiring resources for neighborhood resurrection -- Complementing collaboration.

Summary: In recent years, as government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods' poorest residents. This collaboration, activist churches explain, is a way of enacting their faith and helping their neighborhoods. But as Michael Leo Owens demonstrates in God and Government in the Ghetto, this alliance also serves as a means for black clergy to reaffirm their political leadership and reposition moral authority in black civil society. Drawing on both survey data and fieldwork in Ne.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-292) and index.

In recent years, as government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods' poorest residents. This collaboration, activist churches explain, is a way of enacting their faith and helping their neighborhoods. But as Michael Leo Owens demonstrates in God and Government in the Ghetto, this alliance also serves as a means for black clergy to reaffirm their political leadership and reposition moral authority in black civil society. Drawing on both survey data and fieldwork in Ne.

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