ISBN: 9780802115621 - Reviving the Spirit: A Generation of African Americans Goes Home to Church (16 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. They call me Sister Lawrence. It sounds funny even to me. I am not a holy roller. I've never spoken in tongues and have not yet been visited by the Holy Ghost. Then again, I did not join the church to get to heaven. I joined to survive on Earth.--Beverly Hall Lawrence The return in record numbers of young African Americans to the church has been called a movement sweeping middle-class black congregations' by the Washington Post. African Americans are not only returning to church in search of divine salvation; they are also returning to the only American institution they truly control, in the hope of reviving its role as a command center and strategic outpost for social change, economic reform, political activism, and urban renewal. Drawing on personal experiences, her own and those of the parishioners at one of the oldest and largest African Methodist Episcopal churches in the country, Beverly Hall Lawrence has written both a provocative analysis of an emerging cultural trend and an insightful celebration of the new African American spirituality.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. crisp clean w/remainder mark Standard-sized.

Hardback. Condition: Good. They call me Sister Lawrence. It sounds funny even to me. I am not a holy roller. I've never spoken in tongues and have not yet been visited by the Holy Ghost. Then again, I did not join the church to get to heaven. I joined to survive on Earth.--Beverly Hall Lawrence The return in record numbers of young African Americans to the church has been called a movement sweeping middle-class black congregations' by the Washington Post. African Americans are not only returning to church in search of divine salvation; they are also returning to the only American institution they truly control, in the hope of reviving its role as a command center and strategic outpost for social change, economic reform, political activism, and urban renewal. Drawing on personal experiences, her own and those of the parishioners at one of the oldest and largest African Methodist Episcopal churches in the country, Beverly Hall Lawrence has written both a provocative analysis of an emerging cultural trend and an insightful celebration of the new African American spirituality.…

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition by number code.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. ISBN: 0802115624, Hardback, 1st edition, Near Fine in Fine Minus DJ; trace of bumping to spine neds of book, light wear to DJ and DJ edges, 8vo., 184 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, so stated, in the publisher's original dark orange boards with black spine lettering, octavo, pp. 184.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Printing. 184pp. Orange cloth boards with title on spine. Pictorial Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition With The Number Line Indicating A First Printing. The Book Is Bound In Orange Paper Over Boards With Black Lettering On The Spine. Fine Condition.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First. 184 pages, short 8vo, orange boards d.w. New York: Grove Press, (1996). First edition. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.

Hardcover. 184p., first edition, very good condition in like dj. Georgia born African American journalist.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 184pp. Orange cloth boards with title on spine. Pictorial Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hard Cover. First Printing. 184pp. "A Generation of African-Americans Goes Home to Church". Very good. DJ is very good. (loc 977).

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hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.