TY - BOOK AU - Gates,Henry Louis TI - The Black church: this is our story, this is our song SN - 1984880330 AV - BR563 .N4 G384 2021 U1 - 277.30089/96073 23 PY - 2021/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Press KW - African American churches KW - History KW - African Americans KW - Religion N1 - 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 N2 - "A powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community's abiding rock and its fortress"-- ER -