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Through the storm, through the night : a history of African American Christianity / Paul Harvey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harvey, Paul, 1961-
- Series:
- African American history series (Lanham, Md.)
- The African American history series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Religion.
- African Americans.
- United States--Church history.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2011.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Paul Harvey illustrates how black Christian traditions provided theological, institutional, and personal strategies for cultural survival during bondage and into an era of partial freedom. At the same time, he covers the ongoing tug-of-war between themes of ""respectability"" versus practices derived from an African heritage; the adoption of Christianity by the majority; and the critique of the adoption of the ""white man's religion"" from the eighteenth century to the present. The book also covers internal cultural, gendered, and class divisions in churches that attracted
- Contents:
- Middle passage for the gods: African and African American religions from the middle passage to the great awakening
- The birth of Afro-Christianity in the slave quarters and the urban North, 1740-1831
- Through the night: African American religion in the Antebellum Era
- Day of jubilee: Black churches from emancipation to the era of Jim Crow
- Jesus on the mainline: Black Christianity from the great migration through World War II
- Freedom's main line: Black Christianity, civil rights, and religious pluralism
- Epilogue: righteous anger and visionary dreams: contemporary Black politics, religion, and culture.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-40116-2
- 9798765181799
- 1-283-15187-1
- 9786613151872
- 0-7425-6475-4
- OCLC:
- 742517154
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