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The Enduring Black Church and its Critics: A Book Review of Omar McRoberts's Streets of Glory

Abstract: This review examines several theses and methodologies regarding Black Church activism and contribution to community economic development in an economically depressed inner city neighborhood as presented in Omar McRoberts 's Streets of Glory ( University of Chicago Press, 2003) Itfinds the questions of interest, but empirical support for many of the author's theses lacking when consideredfrom a cross-comparative national perspective The historic role and presence of the Black Church among Blacks in the United States is unquestionably part of the most enduring legacy of the arrival of Africans in the North American Colonies and later the United States Its history began during the pre-Colonial period of Blacks' indentured servitude and in freeborn Black communities, into the slavery period, and onward into Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights era, and now the post-Civil Rights era at the dawn of the twenty-