Plantation church : how African American religion was born in Caribbean slavery / Noel Leo Erskine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erskine, Noel Leo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Religion.

African Americans.

Slavery--Caribbean Area--History.

Slavery.

Slavery--Religious aspects.

Caribbean Area--Religion.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Plantation Church, Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Remembering Ancestors

1. Migration, Displacement, Resistance

2. The Memory of Africa

3. Black Church Experience South of the Border

4. The Plantation Church

5. The Making of the Black World

6. Toward a Creolized Ecclesiology

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-970908-4

OCLC:

922972991