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Something within : religion in African-American political activism - Fredrick C. Harris.Material Type: BookLanguage: EnglishOUM Control No: 000155922Author: Harris, Fredrick C.Related Author: ebrary, Inc.Publication Details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: x, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Item Type: OnlineBibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-220) and index.ISBN No:
- 0195120337 (alk. paper)
Summary: One of the first book-length studies devoted to religion and African-American political activism in a generation, Something Within explores how Afro-Christianity, in various ways, promotes the political activism of African-Americans. Combining ethnography, history, contextual analysis, and survey research, this book illustrates the participatory effects of Afro-Christianity by examining its institutional, psychological, and cultural influences. Going beyond the opiate-inspiration debate that has dominated research on the subject, Author Fredrick C. Harris advances a new theory of religion as a political resource for a "civic culture in opposition."
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