Something Within: Religion in African-American Political Activism

One of the first book-length studies devoted to religion and African-American political activism in a generation, Something Within explores how Afro-Christianity, in various ways, promotes the political activism of African-Americans. Combining ethnography, history, contextual analysis, and survey research, this book illustrates the participatory effects of Afro-Christianity by examining its institutional, psychological, and cultural influences. Going beyond the opiate-inspiration debate that has dominated research on the subject, Author Fredrick C. Harris advances a new theory of religion as a political resource for a "civic culture in opposition."


Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Harris, Fredrick C.
Published: 08/26/1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195120332
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.53h x 6.43w x 1.03d