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Urban Apologetics: Restoring Black Dignity with the Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

African-Americans have long confronted the challenge of dignity destruction caused by white supremacy. While many have found meaning and restoration of dignity in the black church, others have found it in ethnocentric socioreligious groups and philosophies. These ideologies have grown and developed deep traction in the black community and beyond. Previously found primarily in urban communities...

a European expression of Christianity, the Church of God in Christ’s founder clearly sought something different. [Bishop] Mason especially insisted upon the centrality of personal inner transformation without shedding distinctive African cultural expressions. Mainline black churches saw adherence to African worldviews and religious folk culture associated with rural life or Slave Religion, which reflected a low cultural standing. Rising middle-class educated blacks seeking assimilation in the majority
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