Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/gzc3QcS Economic Ethics & the Black Church By: Wylin D. Wilson Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Print ISBN: 9783319663470, 331966347X eText ISBN: 9783319663487, 3319663488 Copyright year: 2017 Format: PDF Available from $ 99.00 USD SKU 9783319663487 This book examines the relationship between race, religion, and economics within the black church. The book features unheard voices of individuals experiencing economic deprivation and the faith communities who serve as their refuge. Thus, this project examines the economic ethics of black churches in the rural South whose congregants and broader communities have long struggled amidst persistent poverty. Through a case study of communities in Alabama's Black Belt, this book argues that if the economic ethic of the Black Church remains accommodationist, it will continue to become increasingly irrelevant to communities that experience persistent poverty. Despite its historic role in combatting racial oppression and social injustice, the Church has also perpetuated ideologies that uncritically justify unjust social structures. Wilson shows how the Church can shift the conversation and reality of poverty by moving from a legacy of accommodationism and toward a legacy of empowering liberating economic ethics.
