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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"the 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
The results provided evidence demonstrating 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 …
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Outsider Within: Examining Homosexuality and the Black Church on YouTube
<p>The discourse on homosexuality is by no means new. However, within the last several years we have seen an increase in the drive towards marriage equality. That drive coupled with technological advances has allowed people to take their conversations into new venues. Historically closed …
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Youth Bear Witness to Mentoring of the Black Church for College Readiness
<p>This dissertation in practice examines the college readiness of five African American high school male students in urban schools in Pittsburgh, PA based on their participation in a middle school mentoring program sponsored by an urban Black church. Situated within Michael Dantley’s critical …
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Soul power: the Black church and the Black Power Movement in Cairo, Illinois, 1969-74
While scholarship on the modern Civil Rights 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 …
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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
… study uses phenomenological methods 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. …
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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
This dissertation explores the relationship(s) between rural African-American women's discourses and social advocacy/action against the social ill of domestic violence in order to provide insights into existing knowledge about the relationships among womanist discourse(s) and cultural competence …
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The Black Oneness Church in Perspective
This qualitative study examines 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 …
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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
The primary purpose of this dissertation was to examine 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 …
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Black children and their churches
… with how different environments impact on the behaviors and attitudes of children. In this regard, much of the attention has been focused on the school and home environments. The aim of this research was to explore the significance of a major institutional setting in black communities, the …
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The Saxophone as a Solo Instument in Gospel Music: The Musical Contributions of Dr. Vernard Johnson
… is an African American musician who introduced the saxophone as a solo 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 …
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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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A Legacy Cut Short The Impact of Pepperdine University on African Americans and South Los Angeles from 1937 – 1981
<p>Due to the California gold rush in the 1800s, White Southerners seeking quick wealth flocked to the “free-state” of California. These new settlers included enslaved Africans, religion, and Southern attitudes that set the foundation for California to be a Southern-attitude state, which eventually …
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Women speaking in and for institutions: a rhetorical history of the politics of respectability in Black Chicago, 1919 - 1939
Institutions have been vital to the survival and uplift of Black communities. To that end, this dissertation analyzes how Black women -- as economic agents and women of faith -- used rhetoric within institutions to advocate and uplift their enclaved communities. Specifically, my dissertation …
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Wayward Christians, Worldly Scriptures: Disarticulating Christianities in the Black Atlantic Public Sphere
… peculiar subset of lived Christian traditions in the black Atlantic world, and the ways in which black theology as a disciplinary formation has only partly included these competing constructions of Christianity in their account of marginalized and marooned peoples. This project will do three …
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Wealth and Worship: The Relationship Between Resources and Religiosity Among African Americans
The purpose of this project is to investigate the correlation between wealth and religion, particularly focusing on how financial prosperity influences African American religiosity. Wealth (specifically in the form of income) is the independent variable (addressing the larger concept of …
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Thomas A. Dorsey's influence on African-American worship
This dissertation focuses upon the background of African-American worship during the 1930s which served as the Sitz im Leben for Dorsey. This dissertation examines how Charles Albert Tindley's gospel hymn singing tradition influenced Dorsey to create and perpetuate gospel music as a theologically …
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