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Religious America; KOiNONIA

09/18/1973

1999 MAPC Preservation Master

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Series

Religious America

Program

KOiNONIA

Program Number

105

Series Description

Series of documentaries about various religions in America - an intimate view of the spiritual experience as discovered by people from all over the United States. Series release date: 1974

Program Description

Description from WGBH press release of the day: “ Picture a ‘moveable church’ that goes into hospitals and nursing homes and teaches karate classes in a gymnasium – a church with a building, sure enough, but a church whose primary aim is to ‘get God out of the church.’ It’s the Koinonia Black Baptist Church, in Gary, Indiana – the subject of tonight’s Religious America.

Filmed in Gary, Indiana in and around The Koinonia Missionary Baptist Church, founded in May, 1971. Participants: Millie Jones; and Rev. Thomas Brown.

Series Description: Series of documentaries about various religions in America - an intimate view of the spiritual experience as discovered by people from all over the United States.

Duration

00:30:00

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Genres

Documentary

Topics

Religion

Citation

Chicago: “Religious America; KOiNONIA,” 09/18/1973, GBH Archives, accessed April 19, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_B8CDFB8C3E2B4041B4701998969F5075.

MLA: “Religious America; KOiNONIA.” 09/18/1973. GBH Archives. Web. April 19, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_B8CDFB8C3E2B4041B4701998969F5075>.

APA: Religious America; KOiNONIA. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_B8CDFB8C3E2B4041B4701998969F5075