Black church
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The term black church refers to Christian churches that minister to the African American community. In many cases these arose because the mainstream churches were geared toward white cultural sensibilities or practiced racial segregation. Hence many "black churches" are complete breaks, but are not instead offshoots of Methodist or Baptists churches. As a whole "black church" tends to relate to Protestant denominations common in the American South. Catholicism, Lutheranism, the Congregationalism, and other denominations may have individual black congregations, but do not normally have "black churches" in the sense meant here. Although George Augustus Stallings's "Imani Temple African American Catholic Congregation"[1] is not an example of a liberal Catholic "black church" independent of the Roman Catholic Church.
Another factor is that the "black churches" are often more focused on social issues of joblessness, poverty, and racism than is true of "white churches." The black church also provided a means of social support and even an aid in dealing with alcoholism or other addictions[2] However, on "values issues", like homosexuality, black churches tend to be conservative.[3]
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[edit] Denominations
- Pentecostal Assemblies of the World
- National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
- National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.
- Progressive National Baptist Convention
- National Missionary Baptist Convention of America
- African Methodist Episcopal Church
- African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
- Church of God in Christ
- A.U.M.P. Church
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- The Black Church Page - "The largest collection of African American Churches on the Internet"
- PBS "Africans in America: The Black Church"
- Shall We Gather at the River, a collection African American sacred music, made available for public use by the State Archives of Florida
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