C. Eric Lincoln was a very influential scholar of religion and race relations. In light of his recent death, African American scholars came together and created this edited collection that represents twenty years of critical intellectual reflection in Lincoln's honor. ""How Long this Road" is a social study of African American religious patterns and dynamics. The broader aim is to add to the scholarly literature on the power, meaning, and value of the sacred in African American culture. C. Eric Lincoln's principle scholarly concern with the racial factor in American social and religious life expands in these pages to include such correlative factors as gender, the African diaspora, and social class.
