books.google.ca - DIVBlack churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black Church in the African American Experience, based on a ten-year study, is the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and...http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Black_Church_in_the_African_American.html?id=-UapGsDwHj8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Black Church in the African American Experience