Something Within

Download or read book Something Within written by Fredrick C. Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first book-length studies in decades solely devoted to religion and African-American political activism, Something Within explores how Afro-Christianity encourages political activism among African-Americans. Combining ethnography, history, contextual analysis, and survey research, this book illustrates the participatory effects of Afro-Christianity by examining its institutional, psychological, and cultural influences. Moving beyond the current debates on the subject, Fredrick C. Harris advances a new theory of religion as a political resource for a "civic culture in opposition."