Sandra L Barnes: 3 books
Live Long and Prosper
How Black Megachurches Address HIV/AIDS and Poverty in the Age of Prosperity Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
This pioneering new study of the Black megachurch phenomenon brings nuance and depth to the question, Are Black megachurches more focused on prosperity than on people?
Black megachurches and their pastors are often accused of failing to use their considerable resources to help the poor; focusing...
Empowering Black Youth of Promise
Education and Socialization in the Village-minded Black Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Informed by the experiences of 772 Black churches, this book relies on a multidisciplinary, mixed-methodological lens to examine how today’s Black churches address the religious and non-religious educational and broader socialization needs of youth. Drawing from a cultural and ecological framework...
The Kings of Mississippi
Race, Religious Education, and the Making of a Middle-Class Black Family in the Segregated South
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Kings of Mississippi examines how a twentieth-century black middle-class family navigated life in rural Mississippi. The book introduces seven generations of a farming family and provides an organic examination of how the family experienced life and economic challenges as one of few middle-class black...