Streets of glory : church and community in a Black urban neighborhood
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Streets of glory : church and community in a Black urban neighborhood
(Morality and society)
University of Chicago, 2005, c2003
- : pbk
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"Published 2003, paperback edition 2005"--T.p. verso
"A portion of this work has been previously published in "Understanding the 'New' Black Pentecostal Activism: Lessons from Boston Ecumenical Ministries" Sociology of Religion 60, no.1 (spring 1999): 47-70"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-173) and index
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内容説明
Long considered the lifeblood of black urban neighborhoods, churches are thought to be dedicated to serving their surrounding communities. But Omar McRoberts's work in Four Corners, a tough Boston neighborhood containing twenty-nine congregations, reveals a very different picture. 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 neighborhood. They are consequently less inclined to cooperate with neighborhood revitalization or respond to the immediate needs of neighborhood residents. Streets of Glory teaches a startling lesson about the relationship between congregations and neighborhoods that will be of interest to anyone concerned with the revitalization of the inner city.
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