The Negro's Church

The Negro’s Church (New York: Institute of Social and Religious Research, 1933) is a book by Joseph Nicholson and Benjamin Mays. It highlights the origins of African-American religion and how it became a way to cope under racist oppression. It said the songs, hymns, and dances of that culture were a way to "endure suffering and survive as it helped blacks get through heartache with the music of the soil and the soul".^[1]

In Chapter VI (titled "The Message of the Minister") the authors performed a systematic study of 100 sermons in order to evaluate the "teaching quality" by the minister in each Negro church. They separated the sermons into "three classes: those that touch on life situations, sermons that are doctrinal or theological, and those that are predominantly other-worldly".^[1] They then critiqued each of the 100 sermons and worked to further classify them.^[2]

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b Mays, Benjamin E. and Joseph W. Nicholson (1969). The Negro's Church. New York: Arno Press, Inc. ISBN 978-1498234290.
^ Pratt, Butler D. (1933). "The Negro's Church. by B. E. Mays, J. W. Nicholson". The Journal of Negro Education. 2 (4): 502–505. doi:10.2307/2292062. JSTOR 2292062.

The book was reprinted by Russell & Russell, 1969; and Arno Press, 1969

External links

[Mays,_Nicholson-1] Mays, Benjamin E. and Joseph W. Nicholson (1969). The Negro's Church. New York: Arno Press, Inc. ISBN 978-1498234290.

[Pratt-2] Pratt, Butler D. (1933). "The Negro's Church. by B. E. Mays, J. W. Nicholson". The Journal of Negro Education. 2 (4): 502–505. doi:10.2307/2292062. JSTOR 2292062.

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