Black Religious Intellectuals The Fight for Equality from Jim Crow to the Twenty-first Century

In Black Religious Intellectuals, Clarence Taylor sheds some much-needed light on the rich intellectual and political tradition that lies in the black religious community. Looking at leaders like Bishop Smallwood Williams, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and Minister Louis Farrakhan, Taylor shows how prominent black leaders were able to carve out a space for religion as part of a progressive political agenda and reveals the ways that religious notions were continually reworked to accommodate the communities they served. Book jacket.