Menu
Top of the pile
83
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
56/100Critics
95/100Scholars
98/100Author:
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Date:
February 16, 2021
A powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community's abiding rock and its fortress.
What The Reviewers Say
Gates, a literary scholar, historian, filmmaker, and best-selling author, looks into how the Black church has molded and transformed the African American experience, from slavery to the present.
To tell the story of the Black church is something of a risk even to a scholar as secure as Gates, for voices in the arena of racial justice have long diminished religion as overly safe and accommodationist.
A scholarly and intimate look at the Black Church’s prodigious history and potential future.
[Gates'] vibrant, incisive The Black Church, a companion book to the new PBS series, leads us along hidden corridors as it unearths revelatory stories while pounding the pulpit with passionate arguments about faith and justice.
