Abstract
This chapter explores the questions of how church praxis and theological beliefs have shaped African American identity and economic activity and how black economic experience has shaped Black Church praxis. It illustrates how theological and ethical beliefs not only reflect, but also shape the identity and economic behavior of individuals by providing normative bases for just relations in the market and by influencing expectations of and offering criticism of economic, social, and political structures. Through the lens of the works of sociologists of religion, it examines the implications of religion for individual and communal identity, yet rather than essentialize the identity of Black, rural, southern Christian African Americans, it allows for fluidity.
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