The Black Megachurch

Tucker-Worgs advances a progressive framework for evaluating the impact of black megachurches while providing one of the most comprehensive profiles of these churches available to date.

~R. Drew Smith, Director, Center for the Church and the Black Experience, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

The Black Megachurch is the best empirical study of black megachurches and politics. Covering 149 churches, Tucker-Worgs astutely shows their wide variety and relates their theological orientation to the types of public engagement they undertake.

~Lawrence Mamiya, Professor of Religion and Africana Studies on the Mattie M. Paschall Davis and Norman H. Davis Chair, Vassar College

... this is unquestionably the definitive study of African American megachurches.

~Choice

One cannot underestimate the importance of this topic and Tucker-Worgs's study... Tucker-Worgs not only sophisticates our view of black megachurches by emphasizing the variation among them, but considerably adds to our understanding of the current and future face of the 'black church.'

~Sociology of Religion

A timely analysis of a much discussed but rarely understood phenomenon. Finally, we have a book on religion and black politics that begins to provide some rigorous insight into the black megachurch movement. The Black Megachurch will be an important resource for years to come.

~Fredrick C. Harris, Professor of Political Science and Director for the Institute in African-American Studies, Columbia University

… a well-researched and assessable survey of 147 black mega-churches. This book is highly recommended for those interested in understanding a phenomenon that will not be disappearing anytime soon.

~Lewis Brogdon, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Religious Studies Review