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The ground has shifted : the future of the Black church in post-racial America / Walter Earl Fluker.
Author
Fluker, Walter E., 1951-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : New York University Press, [2016]
©2016
Description
xi, 313 pages ; 24 cm
Availability
Available Online
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Firestone Library - Stacks
BR563.N4 F58 2016
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Subject(s)
African American churches
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21st century
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Race relations
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Religious aspects
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Christianity
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Church and social problems
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United States
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Post-racialism
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Series
Religion, race, and ethnicity
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"If we are in a post-racial era, then what is the future of the Black Church? If the U.S. will at some time in the future be free from discrimination and prejudices that are based on race how will that affect the church's very identity? In The Ground Has Shifted, Walter Earl Fluker passionately and thoroughly discusses the historical and current role of the black church and argues that the older race-based language and metaphors of religious discourse have outlived their utility. He offers instead a larger, global vision for the black church that focuses on young black men and other disenfranchised groups who have been left behind in a world of globalized capital. Lyrically written with an emphasis on the dynamic and fluid movement of life itself, Fluker argues that the church must find new ways to use race as an emancipatory instrument if it is to remain central in black life, and he points the way for a new generation of church leaders, scholars and activists to reclaim the black church's historical identity and to turn to the task of infusing character, civility, and a sense of community among its congregants."--Publisher's description.
Notes
Included index.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-295) and index.
Contents
From Frogbottom to a bucket of blood
Haunted houses : Black churches and the ghost of post-racialism
Cultural hauntings : Black church leadership and Barack Obama
Turning from dilemma to diaspora
Turning from exodus to exile
Turning from the frying pan to the fire
Just above our heads: a meditation from the middle
Returning to the little house where we lived and made do
Cultural asylums and the jungles they planted in them
Waking up the dead.
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ISBN
9781479810383 ((cl ; : alk. paper))
147981038X ((cl ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016021209
OCLC
946161127
Other standard number
40026631665
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