Abstract
This essay suggests that Black sectarianism, i.e., the establishment of various Black denominations, disrupts the development of Black ecumenism. The author claims that although religion “provides the prime cohesiveness for the black community...it is in the variety of black denominations that the fracture of the black community is most prominently institutionalized.” Black ecumenism, in order to be successful, must “draw upon the black experience as interpreted by black ethnicity.”