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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Black church"”.
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The Political Power Of The Black Church
Black churches are more than spiritual gathering places, they are power centers within the black community. Dr. King and Malcolm X used churches as mobilization centers in their attempts to equip African Americans with political information and the frame of mind needed for political change. When …
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The Black Church and African -American Youth: The Black Church as a Socializing Institution for African -American Male Youth Living in Low -Income Communities
… some of the key roles played by the Black church in poor African-American communities. Specifically, the results suggested that the increased involvement of male youth in church-sponsored activities is associated with the number of Educational Definers to whom youth are exposed and …
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Outsider Within: Examining Homosexuality and the Black Church on YouTube
… venues. Historically closed institutions such as churches have always had opinions on homosexuality yet the conversations stayed within the church or at the very least within the community. The increase in participatory media outlets such as Facebook, MySpace and YouTube has taken the dialogue …
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Youth Bear Witness to Mentoring of the Black Church for College Readiness
… school mentoring program sponsored by an urban Black church. Situated within Michael Dantley’s critical spirituality theory and critical race theory, the author analyzed youths’ counter-narrative experiences of being mentored for college readiness in the Black church. The students had informal …
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Soul power: the Black church and the Black Power Movement in Cairo, Illinois, 1969-74
… Movement has emphasized the centrality of the Black church, popular and scholarly accounts of Black Power portray a movement marked by a profound de-Christianization. Soul Power upends this prevailing narrative, arguing that the Black church played a sustained and pivotal role in the Black …
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A Sociohistorical Analysis of the Black Church as an Educational Institution: Understanding Parishioners Engagement and Motivation to Seek Higher Education
Learning from the experiences of Black adult learners within the Black church provides an opportunity to learn from a culturally relevant space that has deeply rooted historical ties in the Black community. The over-arching research question in this study is: How does the Black church meet the …
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Can I Get an Amen? Central Florida Black Pastors' Perceptions of the Impact of the Black Church in the Black Community
… to answer the research question, “what do black pastors perceive as the role of the church in the black community?” I asked 20 Central Florida black pastors 17 questions, most of them open-ended, to determine their perceptions of the current black church. First, these pastors are dismayed …
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The Black Oneness Church in Perspective
… the social, spiritual and political role the Black Oneness Churches play in Black communities. It also provides an anti-colonial examination of the Afro-Caribbean Oneness churches to understand how it functioned in the formation and defense of the emerging Black communities for the period …
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The Wal-Martization of African American Religion: T.D. Jakes and Woman Thou Art Loosed
… is an ideological critique of the New Black Church model of ministry, with T.D. Jakes and Woman Thou Art Loosed (WTAL) as a case study. T.D. Jakes is an African American televangelist who pastors The Potter’s House, a supermegachurch in Dallas, Texas. He is the quintessential example of …
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Shifting the Atmosphere : An Examination of the Relationships among African-American Female Discourse(s), Culturally Competent Education, and Social Action through the Black Church against Domestic Violence
… diverse cultural identities and experiences of Black women while also remaining conscious of and committed to recognizing the importance of all people, especially those who identify with experiences of oppression, marginalization, and inhospitality within their larger hegemonic societies, …
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Preaching the Lord's Word in a Strange Land: The Influence of The Black Preaching Style on Black American Prose Fiction (Douglass, Toomer, Ellison, Baldwin)
The Black Church is the point of departure for much of Black American Literature. It was inevitable that the God-talk between an oppressed Black community and an Almighty God would soon be elevated to finely wrought art forms. The Black religious service goes beyond mere ceremony in its resplendent …
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A theological and marital interactional analysis of African American Christian couples
… fifty African American Christian couples in the Black Church using an observational research design that considers the influences of religiosity, spirituality and the sanctification of marriage in the Black Church. The second major focus of this marital research project involved utilizing the …
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The relationship between Christian education practices and lifestyle discipleship in African American churches
… practices being implemented in African-American churches and the life-style discipleship lived and exemplified by the members of those churches. The aspect of Black consciousness was also considered alongside the practices to examine what if any difference this makes in the relationship. The …
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Black children and their churches
… significance of a major institutional setting in black communities, the church, on black children. Specifically, this investigation was aimed at examining the role of the black church in the socialization and education of black children. Within this context, this investigation addressed issues …
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The Saxophone as a Solo Instument in Gospel Music: The Musical Contributions of Dr. Vernard Johnson
… instrument to the gospel music tradition in the black church. Though Johnson is not the first to play the saxophone in church, he is the one who popularized and blazed the trail for other instrumentalists to appear as soloists with choral accompaniment. Previously, instruments played a limited …
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Purgatory's Place in The South: A Black Woman's Journey to the Promised Land
… 2001; Ladson-Billings, 2003; Stovall, 2005), Black feminist thought (Collins, 2000), and identity theory of oppression (Hardiman & Jackson, 1997) as the theoretical framework and autobiographical narrative inquiry (He, 2003; Moody,1968; Angleou, 1969; Hurston, 1965; hooks,1996; Jacobs, 1861) …
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Integrating natural coping and survival strategies of African American women into social work practice: lessons learned from the works of Nannie Helen Burruoghs
… are important in that they support the impact of Black women's experiences as a central component to their psychological health particularly in four distinct areas: understanding and appreciation historical oppression in reform efforts; developing and exploring critical awareness/critical …
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Making A Way Out Of No Way: A Phenomenological Study of Black Maternal Activism In Chicago
<p>To date, the lived experiences of Black maternal activists in North Lawndale have not been documented, even with the critical role many played while organizing with Dr. Martin Luther King as part of the Chicago Freedom Movement and the critical role of the Illinois Black Panther Party to the …
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