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Article: Christianity on Trial: African-American Religious Thought Before and After Black Power.
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- Journal of Church and State
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- March 22, 1998
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Christianity on Trial: African-American Religious Thought Before and After Black Power. By Mark L. Chapman. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1996. xi + 180 pp. $18.95 paper.
This book is comprised of five cogently argued, thoroughly documented chapters and a conclusion. Beginning with the post-World War II period, the author examines whether Christianity has been liberative or oppressive to Afrikan Americans. He finds that it has been both. Depending on the period considered, black Christian leaders have criticized Christianity's oppressive tendencies while also defending it against the claim of non-Christians and black youth that it is "the white man's religion" and ...
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