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Faith in the City

Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit

by Angela D. Dillard

  • Paperback
  • 432 pages
  • Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
  • 15.5 x 22.8 x 2.7 cm

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"Faith in the City" is a major new exploration of how the worlds of politics and faith merged in Detroit's African American community. While other religions have mixed politics and creed, "Faith in the City" suggests that this fusion was - and is - particularly vital to African-American clergy and the Black freedom struggle. Activists in cities such as Detroit sustained a record of progressive politics over the course of three decades. Author Angela Dillard reveals this link and describes what the activism of the 60s owed to that of the 1930s. The labor movement, for example, provided Detroit's Black activists, both inside and outside the unions, with organizational power and experience that was virtually unmatched by any other African American urban community. The book is organized around the leaders of two successive generations in this movement: Reverend Charles A. Hill, pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit, 1920-1969, and Reverend Albert B. Cleage, Jr., who established the Central United Church of Christ in 1956.In 1967, Cleage installed an eighteen-foot high painting of the Black Madonna; in 1970, he renamed his church the Shrine of the Black Madonna Pan-African Orthodox Christian Church. Dillard's work masterfully traces the transition from Reverend Hill's social gospel to the clamorous 1960s and the emergence of Cleage's more strident nationalism.
Faith in the City and The Essential History of Christianity
The Essential History of ChristianityFaith in the City

  • Author

    Angela D. Dillard

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    The University of Michigan Press

  • Published

    April 2007

  • Edition

    Annotated edition

  • Weight

    627g

  • Page Count

    432

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 22.8 x 2.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780472032075

  • ISBN-10

    0472032070

  • Eden Code

    1151211

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