A theoretical and historical comparison of black political and religious movements [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 3287362
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Tinney, James S
- Description:
- 321 p.
- Summary:
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"A Theoretical and Historical Comparison of Black Political and Religious Movements" attempts to explore the relationships between religion and politics in the Afro-American community as these are reflected in social movements. It especially seeks to discover functions similarly served in equal fashion by both those movements which are usually termed political, and those which are usually termed religious. The hypotheses which are supported in the final conclusions of the study are as follows: (1) Black political and religious movements are similar in essential features and functions, sharing similar conceptual systems, connective systems, control systems, and change systems. (2) Black movements usually designated popularly as religious movements (such as the Pentecostal Movement) are not typically anti-political, non-political or other-worldly in nature.
(3) Black movements usually designated popularly as political movements (such as the Black Panther Party) are not typically anti-religious, non-religious, or antagonistic to religious involvements. (4) Black political movements have often originated from the constituencies of the Black church, and often with its encouragement and supports. (5) Underlying assumptions about oppression of Blacks in America, about the goal of liberation, about the necessity of alliances, about the need for internal authority, about the need for methodological eclecticism, are similar in both Black political and religious movements. (6) Whites frequently attempt to involve themselves in Black movements which must usually direct additional energies and resources inwardly and internally to cope with problems occasioned by their participation or assertiveness.
(7) Black movements do not characteristically originate in a vacuum, but spring from antecedent movements or beliefs, although developing a novel or eclectic approach. (8) Black movements have usually been characterized by a pronounced and highly developed ideology. (9) A general overview of prominent Black movements which have received at least modest-to-broad support from the Black community reveals that they tend to be reformist rather than revolutionary. Historically the dissertation examines movements which appeared in the following eras of Black American life: Post-Revolution, Anti-Slavery, Reconstruction, Rescission, Garvey-DuBois, and Rights and Revolution eras. Then three specific movements, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Black Panther Party, and Black Pentecostalism, are examined as conceptual, connective, control, and change subsystems.
- Notes:
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- (UnM)AAI8106287
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-10, Section: A, page: 4471.
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Howard University, 1978.
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International.
- Subject:
- History, Black
- Other authors/contributors:
- Howard University
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Creation date:
- 1978
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