| Description |
xi, 224 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-214) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Praying the abcs: reflections on faith in history -- pt. 1. In search of the promised land: African-American religion and American destiny: African-Americans, Exodus and the American Israel -- "Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands": Black destiny in nineteenth-century America -- "How far the promised land?": Black religion and Black protest -- pt. 2. Under their own vine and fig tree: the Black church: Richard Allen and the African Church Movement -- The Black church: continuity without change -- Minority within a minority: the history of the Black Catholics in America -- pt. 3. The performed word: religious practice: The chanted sermon -- The conversion experience -- A hidden wholeness: Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Epilogue: A fire in the bones. |
| Summary |
"A Fire in the Bones is a fascinating and moving collection of essays from one of America's most prominent scholars of religious history. In his first book since the classic, Slave Religion, Albert Raboteau shows how the active faith of African-Americans shaped their religious institutions and forged the struggle for social justice throughout their history. Covering many traditions - Baptist revivals, the AME Church, Black Catholics, African orisa religions - Raboteau reveals the pervasive faith of African-Americans that God was an actor in their history. This faith has enabled them to challenge America's self-image as "The Promised Land" and to fight the institutions of racism."--Jacket. |
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African Americans -- Religion.
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United States -- Church history.
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African Americans -- Religion.
(OCoLC)fst00799689
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Geschichte (DE-588)4020517-4
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Kirche (DE-588)4030702-5
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Religion (DE-588)4049396-9
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Schwarze (DE-588)4116433-7
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United States (DE-588)4078704-7
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Christendom.
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Negers.
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African Americans -- Religion.
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Schwarze.
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United States.
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| Indexed Term |
African Americans Religion |
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Kirchengeschichte |
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United States Church history |
| Genre/Form |
Church history. (OCoLC)fst01411629
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Raboteau, Albert J. Fire in the bones. Boston : Beacon Press, ©1995 (OCoLC)624393577 |
| ISBN |
0807009326 |
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9780807009321 |
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0807009334 |
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9780807009338 |
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