| Description |
x, 178 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Morality and society series |
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Morality and society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index. |
| Contents |
Birth of the Black religious district -- Four corners : birth of a contemporary religious district -- In the world, but not of it : particularism and exilic consciousness -- The street : clergy confront the immediate environment -- Changing the world : church based "activism" -- Who is my neighbor? Religion and institutional infrastructure in four corners -- Conclusion: Saving four corners. |
| Summary |
"Long considered the lifeblood of urban African American neighborhoods, churches are held up as institutions dedicated to serving their surrounding communities. Omar McRoberts's work in Four Corners, however, reveals a very different picture. One of the toughest neighborhoods in Boston, Four Corners also contains twenty-nine churches, mostly storefront congregations, within its square-half-mile radius. In McRoberts's hands, this area teaches a startling lesson about the relationship between congregations and neighborhoods that will be of interest to everyone concerned with the revitalization of the inner city." "McRoberts finds, for example, that most of the churches in Four Corners are attended and run by people who do not live in the neighborhood but who worship there because of the low overhead. These churches, McRoberts argues, are communities in and of themselves, with little or no attachment to the surrounding area. This disconnect makes the churches less inclined to cooperate with neighborhood revitalization campaigns and less likely to respond to the immediate needs of neighborhood residents. Thus, the faith invested in inner-city churches as beacons of local renewal might be displaced, and the decision to count on them to administer welfare definitely should be revisited."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
African American churches -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
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City churches -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
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Boston (Mass.) -- Church history.
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African American churches. (OCoLC)fst00799090
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City churches. (OCoLC)fst00862116
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Massachusetts -- Boston.
(OCoLC)fst01205012
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Geschichte. (DE-588)4020517-4
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Kirche. (DE-588)4030702-5
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Boston, Mass. (DE-588)4007840-1
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Schwarze. (DE-588)4116433-7
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Schwarze.
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| Genre/Form |
Church history. (OCoLC)fst01411629
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0226562166 (alkaline paper) |
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9780226562162 (alkaline paper) |
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