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BL
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1038369
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b792739
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| Main Entry
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Owens, Michael Leo.
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God and government in the ghetto : : the politics of church-state collaboration in Black America /\ Michael Leo Owens.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2007.
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| Series Statement
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Morality and society series
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1 online resource (xii, 310 pages) :: illustrations, map
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| ISBN
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0226642089
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: 9780226642086
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0226642062
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0226642070
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9780226642062
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9780226642079
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-292) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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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African American churches.
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Church and state-- United States.
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Community development, Urban-- United States.
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Faith-based human services-- United States.
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African American churches.
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Church and state.
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Community development, Urban.
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Faith-based human services.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Process-- Political Advocacy.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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322/.108996073
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BR563.N4O96 2007eb
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