African-American Christianity : essays in history /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 189 pages)
Language:English
Subject:African Americans -- Religion.
African American churches -- History.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
African American churches.
African Americans -- Religion.
Religion.
Religion
United States -- Religion.
United States.
USA.
Schwarze.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11106546
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Other authors / contributors:Johnson, Paul E., 1942-
ISBN:9780520911772
0520911776
0585078882
9780585078885
0520075935
0520075943
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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.
Other form:Print version: African-American Christianity. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994 0520075935