Beyond Christianity
Subtitle: African Americans in a New Thought Church (Religion, Race, and Ethnicity)
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: March 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780814756935
Subjects: Christian & quasi-Christian cults & sects; Oakland; East Bay Church of Religious Science (Oakland, Calif.); Religion; Religion - Church History; General; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; AFRICAN AMERICANS_CALIFORNIA; OAKLAND (CALIF.); Social Science / African-American Studies; East Bay Church of Religious S; African Americans; California
Description: "This book draws on ethnographic work in a Religious Science church in Oakland, California, to illuminate the ways in which a group of African Americans has adapted a religion typically thought of as white to fit their needs and circumstances."--BOOK JACKET.