portada sacred mission, worldly ambition (en Inglés)

sacred mission, worldly ambition (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Adele Oltman

Editorial

University of Georgia Press

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6x14.5x2.3 cm

Peso

0.34 kg.

ISBN

0820341266

ISBN13

9780820341262

Categorías

Ee. uu. región del sur
Siglo xx, c. 1900-c. 1999
Historia de américa
Historia de la religión
Cristianismo
Historia local

sacred mission, worldly ambition (en Inglés)

Adele Oltman (Autor) · University of Georgia Press · Tapa Blanda

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Using Savannah, Georgia, as a case study, Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition tells the story of the rise and decline of Black Christian Nationalism. This nationalism emerged from the experiences of segregation, as an intersection between the sacred world of religion and church and the secular world of business. The premise of Black Christian Nationalism was a belief in a dual understanding of redemption, at the same time earthly and otherworldly, and the conviction that black Christians, once delivered from psychic, spiritual, and material want, would release all of America from the suffering that prevented it from achieving its noble ideals. The study's use of local sources in Savannah, especially behind-the-scenes church records, provides a rare glimpse into church life and ritual, depicting scenes never before described. Blending history, ethnography, and Geertzian dramaturgy, it traces the evolution of black southern society from a communitarian, nationalist system of hierarchy, patriarchy, and interclass fellowship to an individualistic one that accompanied the appearance of a new black civil society. Although not a study of the civil rights movement, Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition advances a bold, revisionist interpretation of black religion at the eve of the movement. It shows that the institutional primacy of the churches had to give way to a more diversified secular sphere before an overtly politicized struggle for freedom could take place. The unambiguously political movement of the 1950s and 1960s that drew on black Christianity and radiated from many black churches was possible only when the churches came to exert less control over members' quotidian lives.