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
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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-292) and index
