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050	0	0	_aBR 563 .N4 _bF73 1964
082	0	0	_a277.3
100	1		_aFrazier, Edward Franklin, _d1894-1962. _923496
245	1	4	_aThe Negro church in America.
260			_aNew York, _bSchocken Books _c[1964]
300			_axii, 92 p. _c21 cm.
490	0		_aStudies in sociology
504			_aBibliographical footnotes.
505			_aContents:
505			_aThe religion of the slaves. The break with the African background ; The loss of social cohesion ; The Christian religion provides a new basis of social cohesion ; Christianity: a new orientation towards existence ; The Negro adapts Christianity to his experience in the New World ; The 'invisible institution' comes into existence. -- The institutional church of the free Negroes. The Negroes who were free before the Civil War ; Relations of free Negroes and Whites in the churches ; Conflict over the question of status ; The free Negroes establish their own churches. -- The Negro church: a nation within a nation. The 'invisible institution' merges with the institutional church ; The church as an agency of social control ; The church and economic co-operation ; The church and education ; An arena of political life ; A refuge in a hostile White world. -- Negro religion in the city. The migration to cities ; The secularization of the churches ; Religion in the 'storefront' church ; Negro cults in the city. -- The Negro church and assimilation. The walls came tumbling down ; The church is no longer a refuge ; The gospel singers ; The religion of the new middle class.
650		0	_aAfrican American churches. _923497
906			_a7 _bcbc _corignew _du _eocip _f19 _gy-gencatlg
942			_2lcc _cBOOK _hBR 563 .N4 _iF73 1964
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