Authentically Black and Truly Catholic : : The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration / / Matthew J. Cressler.

Explores the contentious debates among Black Catholics about the proper relationship between religious practice and racial identity Chicago has been known as the Black Metropolis. But before the Great Migration, Chicago could have been called the Catholic Metropolis, with its skyline defined by pari...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 10 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Migrants and missionaries: “foreign missions” on the south side of Chicago
  • 2. Becoming catholic: education, evangelization, and conversion
  • 3. The living stations of the cross: black catholic difference in the black metropolis
  • 4. Black Catholics and black power: concerned black Catholics and the struggle for self- determination
  • 5. Becoming black Catholics: the black catholic movement and the rise of black Catholicism
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author