Through the Storm, Through the Night - A History of African American Christianity

Informationen zum Autor Paul Harvey is professor of history at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is the author of Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925 and Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era. Klappentext Through the Storm, Through the Night provides a lively overview to the history of African American religion, beginning with the birth of African Christianity amidst the Transatlantic slave trade, and tracing the story through its growth in America. Noted author and historian 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, Harvey covers the ongoing tug-of-war between themes of "respectability" versus practices derived from an African heritage; the adoption of Christianity by the majority of African Americans; and the critique of the adoption of the "white man's religion" from the eighteenth century to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Themes in African American Religious HistoryChapter 1: Middle Passage for the Gods: African and African American Religions from the Middle Passage to the Great AwakeningChapter 2: The Birth of Afro-Christianity in the Slave Quarters and the Urban North, 1740-1831Chapter 3: Through the Night: African American Religion in the Antebellum EraChapter 4: Day of Jubilee: Black Churches from Emancipation to the Era of Jim CrowChapter 5: Jesus on the Mainline: Black Christianity from the Great Migration through World War IIChapter 6: Freedom's Main Line: Black Christianity, Civil Rights, and Religious PluralismEpilogue: Righteous Anger and Visionary Dreams: Contemporary Black Politics, Religion, and CultureDocumentsBibliographic Essay

Product details

• Authors: Paul Harvey
• Assisted by: Mjagkij Nina (Editor of the series), Moore Jacqueline M. (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.2013
• EAN: 9780742564749
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-6474-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: The African American History Series; The African American Experience Series; The African American Experience Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; USA, Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / United States / General, Christianity, History of Religion, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, The Americas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General