African-American Christianity : essays in history
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African-American Christianity : essays in history
University of California Press, c1994
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Includes index
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ISBN 9780520075931
Description
This series of essays traces the history of Afro-American religion from times of slavery to the present day. The contributors describe the fusion of African and Christian traditions that have contributed so uniquely to American religious development. Several common themes emerge: the critical importance of African roots; the traumatic discontinuities of slavery; the struggle for freedom within slavery; and the creativity of Afro-American religious faith and practice.
Table of Contents
Preface by Vincent G. Harding Albert J. Raboteau: Afro-Americans, Exodus, and the American Israel Charles Joyner: "Believer I Know:" The Emergence of Afro-American Christianity Margaret Washington: Community Regulation and Cultural Specialization in Gullah Folk-Religion William L. Andrews: The Politics of African-American Ministerial Autobiography from Reconstruction to the 1920s Cheryl Townsend Gilkes: The Politics of "Silence": Dual-Sex Political Systems and Women's Traditions of Conflict in African-American Religion Randall K. Burkett: The Black Church in the Years of Crisis: J.C. Austin and Pilgrim Baptist Church, 1927-1950 Clayborne Carson: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the African-American Social Gospel
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: pbk ISBN 9780520075948
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Eight leading scholars have joined forces to give us the most comprehensive book to date on the history of African-American religion from the slavery period to the present. Beginning with Albert Raboteau's essay on the importance of the story of Exodus among African-American Christians and concluding with Clayborne Carson's work on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s religious development, this volume illuminates the fusion of African and Christian traditions that has so uniquely contributed to American religious development. Several common themes emerge: the critical importance of African roots, the traumatic discontinuities of slavery, the struggle for freedom within slavery and the subsequent experience of discrimination, and the remarkable creativity of African-American religious faith and practice. Together, these essays enrich our understanding of both African-American life and its part in the history of religion in America.
Table of Contents
Preface by Vincent G. Harding Albert J. Raboteau: Afro-Americans, Exodus, and the American Israel Charles Joyner: "Believer I Know:" The Emergence of Afro-American Christianity Margaret Washington: Community Regulation and Cultural Specialization in Gullah Folk-Religion William L. Andrews: The Politics of African-American Ministerial Autobiography from Reconstruction to the 1920s Cheryl Townsend Gilkes: The Politics of "Silence": Dual-Sex Political Systems and Women's Traditions of Conflict in African-American Religion Randall K. Burkett: The Black Church in the Years of Crisis: J.C. Austin and Pilgrim Baptist Church, 1927-1950 Clayborne Carson: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the African-American Social Gospel
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