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A sociology of Black clergy in the state of Illinois : activism and acquiescence in the post-civil rights generation / Sandra Ellen Weissinger with foreword by Assata Zerai.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780773417809
  • 077341780X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sociology of Black clergy in the state of Illinois.DDC classification:
  • 277.3/08208996073 23
LOC classification:
  • BR563.N4 W43 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
"Good people participate in systems that produce bad consequences all the time": a sociological rationale for studying Black clergy and the reproduction of inequality -- In the field, but out of place: the emotional labor of ethnographic fieldwork -- For the love of money, for the love of Jesus: backstage on the set of the good works show -- "We will not sell God out!" -- Straining to reach the enter -- Everything is everything: beyond biography, socialization, and context towards remembering hope, power, and the possibility of deliverance.
Summary: A first time study that considers the diverse conditions that affect the ministry of Black clergy in Illinois.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index.

"Good people participate in systems that produce bad consequences all the time": a sociological rationale for studying Black clergy and the reproduction of inequality -- In the field, but out of place: the emotional labor of ethnographic fieldwork -- For the love of money, for the love of Jesus: backstage on the set of the good works show -- "We will not sell God out!" -- Straining to reach the enter -- Everything is everything: beyond biography, socialization, and context towards remembering hope, power, and the possibility of deliverance.

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A first time study that considers the diverse conditions that affect the ministry of Black clergy in Illinois.