AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY: ESSAYS IN HISTORY

A survey of African-American Christianity from slavery to the concluding essay by Clyborne Carson on the significance of African-American traditions in Martin Luthor King, Jr.s development; also includes essays by Vincent G. Harding, albert J. Raboteau, Charles Joyner, Margaret Washinton, Charyl Townsend Gilkes, William L. Andrews, and Randall K. Burkett

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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.

Product Info

ISBN: 0520075943

ISBN-13: 9780520075948

Publisher: University of California Press

Year: [1994]

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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