Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North D. B. Jackson and modern cosmology

and modern cosmology

Publisher: 3sixty Media

ISBN10: 1541913108

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Author: Gloria Uhler

Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North D. B. Jackson and modern cosmologyStemming from his anthropological field work among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely direction that mainstream black religious leadership would take in the future, a direction that later indeed manifested itself in the civil rights movement. The American black church, according to Fauset and other contemporary researchers, provided the one place where blacks