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Title African-American Christianity : essays in history / edited by Paul E. Johnson.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  277.3 A258A    Check Shelf
Description xi, 189 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents African-Americans, Exodus, and the American Israel / Albert J. Raboteau -- "Believer I know" : the emergence of African-American Christianity / Charles Joyner -- Community regulation and cultural specialization in Gullah folk religion / Margaret Washington -- The politics of "silence" : dual-sex political systems and women's traditions of conflict in African-American religion / Cheryl Townshend Gilkes -- The politics of African-American ministerial autobiography from reconstruction to the 1920s / William L. Andrews -- The Baptist church in the years of crisis : J.C. Austin and Pilgrim Baptist Church, 1926-1950 / Randall K. Burkett -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the African-American social gospel / Clayborne Carson.
Summary 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.
Subject African Americans -- Religion.
African American churches -- History.
United States -- Religion.
African American churches. (OCoLC)fst00799090
African Americans -- Religion. (OCoLC)fst00799689
Religion. (OCoLC)fst01093763
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Christentum. (DE-588)4010074-1
Geschichte. (DE-588)4020517-4
Schwarze. (DE-588)4116433-7
United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
Religion.
United States.
Schwarze.
Indexed Term Black persons Christianity History
United States
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Johnson, Paul E., 1942-
ISBN 0520075935 (alk. paper)
9780520075931 (alk. paper)
0520075943 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520075948 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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