God and Government in the Ghetto

The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America

By: Michael Leo Owens

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Paperback | 21 December 2007 | Edition Number 1

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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 New York City, Owens reveals that African American churches can use these newly forged connections with public agencies to influence policy and government responsiveness in a way that reaches beyond traditional electoral or protest politics. The churches and neighborhoods, Owens argues, can see a real benefit from that influence-but it may come at the expense of less involvement at the grassroots.

Anyone with a stake in the changing strategies employed by churches as they fight for social justice will find God and Government in the Ghetto compelling reading.

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"This exceptional book will be crucial for those of us who study black politics. In this era of strange alliances between the Republican right and black Christian fundamentalists, research that illuminates how the formerly contentious and confrontational black church has adapted to certain political realities has cutting-edge relevancy." - Andrea Y. Simpson, University of Richmond"

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Scope and Theory of Church-State Collaboration
The Extent and Support of African American Churches' Collaboration with Government	p. 21
The Volition to Collaborate with Government	p. 42
The Social and Political Context of New York City
Public Policy and Black Neighborhood Decline	p. 67
Faith in Action for Neighborhood Redemption	p. 86
Inside Church-State Collaboration
Partnering with Caesar	p. 111
Acquiring Resources for Neighborhood Resurrection	p. 140
Complementing Collaboration	p. 173
Conclusion	p. 203
Research Note	p. 211
Notes	p. 217
References	p. 259
Index	p. 293
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