A sociology of Black clergy in the state of Illinois
Subtitle: activism and acquiescence in the post-civil rights generation
By: Sandra Ellen Weissinger
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780773414990
Subjects: Race relations; Civil rights movement; Civil rights; Christianity and politics; African American clergy; Christianity; United States; Religion; African American churches; African Americans; Political activity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Good people participate in systems that produce bad consequences all the time": a sociological rationale for studying Black clergy and the reproduction of inequality; title: In the field, but out of place: the emotional labor of ethnographic fieldwork; title: For the love of money, for the love of Jesus: backstage on the set of the good works show; title: "We will not sell God out!"; title: Straining to reach the enter; title: Everything is everything: beyond biography, socialization, and context towards remembering hope, power, and the possibility of deliverance.