The Black church : this is our story, this is our song /
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.,
The Black church : this is our story, this is our song / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - New York : Penguin Press, 2021. - xxiv, 278 pages, 32 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The freedom faith -- A nation within a nation -- Speakers of the word -- God will make a way -- Crisis of faith -- Epilogue. On the Holy Ghost : the beautiful and the sublime, the vision and the trance -- Appendix. Great voices in the African American preaching tradition.
"A powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community's abiding rock and its fortress"--
1984880330 9781984880338
2020042098
African American churches--History.
African Americans--Religion.
BR563 .N4 / G384 2021
277.30089/96073
The Black church : this is our story, this is our song / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - New York : Penguin Press, 2021. - xxiv, 278 pages, 32 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The freedom faith -- A nation within a nation -- Speakers of the word -- God will make a way -- Crisis of faith -- Epilogue. On the Holy Ghost : the beautiful and the sublime, the vision and the trance -- Appendix. Great voices in the African American preaching tradition.
"A powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community's abiding rock and its fortress"--
1984880330 9781984880338
2020042098
African American churches--History.
African Americans--Religion.
BR563 .N4 / G384 2021
277.30089/96073