![]() ![]() However, the field still remains a fertile area for exploration. Franklin Frazier, whose 1953 lecture series on black religion was gathered and issued in 1964 as The Negro Church in America. Woodson in his History of the Negro Church, published in 1921 and by E. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folks and The Negro Church, both published in 1903 by Carter G. Valuable pioneering work was done by W.E.B. One still looks in vain, however, for a major history of Afro~American religion. ![]() An agency of social control, a source of economic cooperation, an arena for political activity, a sponsor of education, and a refuge in a hostile white world, the black Church has been historically the social center of Afro~American life. ~ "Until recently, the history of the black Church was a subject largely ignored by historians of religion in America despite the wide recognition that black religious institutions have been the foundation of Afro~American culture. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc ~. ![]() Pink, orange & b/w photo illustrated trade paperback soft cover 8vo. ![]()
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