Details

Subject(s)

• African Americans—Religion [Browse]
• United States—Church history [Browse]

Series

• African American history series (Lanham, Md.) [More in this series]
• The African American history series

Summary note

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

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Language note

English

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.

Show 4 more Contents items

ISBN

• 9780742564756
• 0742564754

OCLC

742517154

Statement on language in description

Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...