Synopsis
A took at how African and African-Caribbean congregations are thriving while church attendance in Britain as a whole is in decline.
- Programme: Black Messiah
- Channel: BBC Knowledge
- Broadcast year: 2001
- Sociology | How are religion, belief and faith defined and measured? | Defining religion, faith and belief. Different types of religious institutions, organisations and movements: churches and denominations; sects and cults; new religious movements; new age movements; religious fundamentalism.
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