Black Conversion to Catholicism

Its Implications for the Negro Church

Bibliographic Data

ID2512930
AuthorsDaniel F Collins (0000-0002-0243-9274, corresponding author)
Year1971
Volume10
Issue3
Pages208
Publication date1971-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8294 • E-ISSN: 1468-5906
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1384480
OpenAlexW2323831858
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Catholicism and discusses the significance that this change of church affiliation may have for the traditional Negro Church. The change is viewed as emerging from the breakdown of the Negro Church's importance as an over-arching, multifunctional institution serving the social, political and economic needs, as well as the religious needs, of the Black communities. Because of the centrality of the Negro Church to Negro life in the South, the change of Blacks from their traditional forms of religious expression is seen as a special case of the general phenomenon of church-change. Change from communal forms of religious expression to church affiliations premised on individual initiative and responsibility emerges as a dominant pattern in this instance of church-change

African american · Black church · Ethnology · Political science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religious studies

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