TY  - BOOK
AU  - Owens,Michael Leo
TI  - God and government in the ghetto: the politics of church-state collaboration in Black America 
T2  - Morality and society series
SN  - 9780226642086
AV  - BR563.B53 O96 2007eb
U1  - 322/.108996073 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - African American churches
KW  - Church and state
KW  - United States
KW  - Faith-based human services
KW  - Community development, Urban
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Process
KW  - Political Advocacy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-292) and index; 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
N2  - 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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