African-American Christianity : essays in history

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Paul E., Author.

Contributor:

Johnson, Paul E., Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Religion.

African Americans.

African American churches--History.

African American churches.

United States--Religion.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of California Press 1994

Language Note:

English

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. Together, these essays enrich our understanding of both African-American life and its part in the history of religion in America.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-520-91177-6

0-585-07888-2