African American religion : a very short introduction

Author(s)

• Glaude, Eddie S., Jr.

Bibliographic Information

African American religion : a very short introduction

Eddie S. Glaude Jr

（Very short introductions, 397）

Oxford University Press, c2014

• : pbk

Note

Summary: "African American Religion offers a provocative historical and philosophical treatment of the religious life of African Americans. Glaude argues that the phrase "African American religion" is meaningful only insofar as it singles out the distinctive ways religion has been leveraged by African Americans to respond to different racial regimes in the United States. That bold claim frames how he reads the historical record. Slavery, Jim Crow, and current appeals to color blindness serve as a backdrop for his treatment of conjure, African American Christianity and Islam" -- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-132) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Since the first African American denomination was established in Philadelphia in 1818, churches have gone beyond their role as spiritual guides in African American communities and have served as civic institutions, spaces for education, and sites for the cultivation of individuality and identities in the face of limited or non-existent freedom. In this Very Short Introduction, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. explores the history and circumstances of African American religion through three examples: conjure, African American Christianity, and African American Islam. He argues that the phrase "African American religion " is meaningful only insofar as it describes how through religion, African Americans have responded to oppressive conditions including slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, and the pervasive and institutionalized discrimination that exists today. This bold claim frames his interpretation of the historical record of the wide diversity of religious experiences in the African American community. He rejects the common tendency to racialize African American religious experiences as an inherent proclivity towards religiousness and instead focuses on how religious communities and experiences have developed in the African American community and the context in which these developments took place.

Table of Contents

• Chapter One:
• The Category of "African American Religion"
• Chapter Two:
• Conjure and African American Religion
• Chapter Three
• African American Christianity and Its Early Phase (1760-1863)
• Chapter Four
• African American Christianity: The Modern Phase (1863-1980)
• Chapter Five
• African American Christianity: The Contemporary Phase (1980-present)
• Chapter Six
• African American Islam

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB16789640
• ISBN:
  • 9780195182897
• LCCN: 2014007043
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford [U.K.]
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 142 p.
• Size: 18 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BR563.N4
  • DC23 : 200.89/96073
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : African Americans -- Religion
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA34547828