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Streets of Glory

Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood

by Omar M. McRoberts

  • Paperback
  • 186 pages
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • 15.1 x 23.5 x 1.1 cm

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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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  • Author

    Omar M. McRoberts

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    The University of Chicago Press

  • Published

    July 2005

  • Edition

    New edition

  • Weight

    264g

  • Page Count

    186

  • Dimensions

    15.1 x 23.5 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780226562179

  • ISBN-10

    0226562174

  • Eden Code

    1190809

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