Smart Suits, Tattered Boots : : Black Ministers Mobilizing the Black Church in the Twenty-First Century / / Michelle Oyakawa, Korie Little Edwards.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Edwards, Korie Little,; Oyakawa, Michelle,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Explores the complex role that Black religious leaders play—or don’t play—in twenty-first-century racial justice effortsDr. Martin Luther King Jr. along with many of his Black religious contemporaries courageously mobilized for freedom, ushering in the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth cent...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 On the Front Lines
• 2 The Obama Effect
• 3 The Civil Rights Movement Credential
• 4 The Black Protestant Ethic
• 5 A Different Ballgame
• 6 The General, the Warrior, and the Protégé
• Conclusion
• Appendix Methodology
• Notes
• References
• Index
• About the Authors