In this descriptive analysis of a contemporary, viable social group--a black Pentecostal church in the Hill District of Pittsburgh--Williams vividly recreates a society that most people have only glimpsed. He looks beyond "social and cultural deprivation," "social disorganization," and the "poverty-stricken and disadvantaged" and discovers human vitality within black lifestyles--the meaning that must reside in every cohesive human group. It is not only the first anthropological book of its kind, but also a penetrating look at the black southern peasant transplanted to the urban north, the role of the black church in this transition, the concept of community in modern society, and the cultural content of poverty.
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a brief look at a southern penecostal church,
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This review is from: Community in a Black Pentecostal Church: An Anthropological Study (Paperback)
Williams deals with a southern, black, poor penecostal church in the urban Pittsburg, PA setting. He goes in depth to the symbolic social structure of the Church of Zion. All in all a very good independant ethnographic study of the subject; could have used a little more time dealing with the detail of tying toghether the symbolism used in the work. However a very good work that should be applauded for the time and effort spent on it.
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