
The Black American Church
Leadership Dispensation and Challenges
- 406 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The purpose of this book seeks to examine the leadership of the Black church through a critical and theoretical lens utilizing historical and anthropological foci to better identify and understand some of the challenges within the paramount institution and its attrition to the Black American community at large and provide appropriate suggestions and generating frameworks for addressing the challenges. The church has always played a pivotal role in Black American culture's identity, development, and progression. Leadership and organizational challenges within the church pervasively matriculate to other Black spaces, historically Black organizations, and a broader societal context. Due to the church's historical and ethnographic context for Blacks in America, many of the challenges faced in the church go unrecognized, unspoken, thus unattended. This manuscript endeavors to identify the challenges, and flaws through research and data, to provide solutions through practical and theoretical implementations to some shortcomings for the betterment of the church and culture. The interconnectedness of culture and religion for Blacks in America established a gargantuan impact factor on the church and its leaders. This manuscript examines the pervading effects of the influence through leadership dispensation. It also explores the understanding of leadership through the lens of Black Christianity, deriving that the foundation of leadership in the Black community was primarily circumscribed by the influence of the church as conglomerate collectivism of almost five hundred years of the history and culture of Africans, African descendants, and members of the African diaspora in what is now America who contributed to the ideal of the Black church. The critical analysis provided is not one of condemnation but likened to a vital performance review through member experiences barred against applicable leadership and organizational development barometers.
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Table of contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgment
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: The Interconnectedness of Culture and Religion
- Chapter 3: Data Results
- Chapter 4: Grasping Leadership
- Chapter 5: Organizational Structure
- Chapter 6: Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Competencies
- Chapter 7: Leadership Development Succession
- Chapter 8: Communication
- Chapter 9: Collaboration
- Chapter 10: COVID-19 and Disruptors
- Chapter 11: Broader Societal Context
- Chapter 12: Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Appendices
- Appendix A: Questionnaire Instrument
- Appendix B: Data Analysis
- Appendix C
- Appendix D: Tables from the literature review
- Endnotes
- Index
- About the Author