Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Arthur Huff Fauset, Barbara Dianne Savage (Contribution by), John Szwed (Introduction by)Publish date:1971-01-12Pages:152
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812210019ISBN-10:812210018UPC:9780812210019Book Category:Social Science, History, ReligionBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, United States, CultsBook Topic:American, State & LocalSize:7.80 x 5.20 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCCMBAH39F
Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North
Stemming from his anthropological field work among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely direction that mainstream black religious leadership would take in the future, a direction that later indeed manifested itself in the civil rights movement. The American black church, according to Fauset and other...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812210019ISBN-10:812210018UPC:9780812210019Book Category:Social Science, History, ReligionBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, United States, CultsBook Topic:American, State & LocalSize:7.80 x 5.20 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCCMBAH39F
Arthur Huff Fauset (1899-1983) was a civil rights activist, educator, folklorist, and author of several works, including Sojourner Truth, a biography. Barbara Dianne Savage is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author of Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
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