Black Megachurch Culture

Models for Education and Empowerment

von Sandra L. Barnes

198 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book identifies how church cultural components are created, developed, and used to educate and empower adherents, and whether and how these tools are associated with the historic Black Church. The book is particularly interested in how large Black congregations – megachurches – use rituals found in worship, theology, racial beliefs, programmatic efforts, and other tools from their cultural repertoire to instruct congregants to model success in word and deed. The book’s findings illustrate that Black megachurches strive to model success on various fronts by tapping into effective historic Black Church tools and creating cultural kits that foster excitement, expectation, and entitlement.

• Reihe: Black Studies and Critical Thinking
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten Religiöse Gemeinschaften
• ISBN: 9781433109096
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.09.2010
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York