God and government in the ghetto the politics of church-state collaboration in Black America

Summary: In recent years, as government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods' poorest residents. This collaboration, activist churches explain, is a way of enacting their faith and helping their neighborhoods. But as Michael Leo Owens demonstrates in God and Government in the Ghetto, this alliance also serves as a means for black clergy to reaffirm their political leadership and reposition moral authority in black civil society. Drawing on both survey data and fieldwork in Ne.

Record details

ISBN: 9780226642086 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0226642089 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (xii, 310 p.) : ill., map.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-292) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The extent and support of African American churches' collaboration with government -- The volition to collaborate with government -- Public policy and Black neighborhood decline -- Faith in action for neighborhood redemption -- Partnering with Caesar -- Acquiring resources for neighborhood resurrection -- Complementing collaboration.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.