African-American Christianity - Essays in History

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List of contents

Preface by Vincent G. Harding
Albert J. Raboteau: Afro-Americans, Exodus, and the American Israel
Charles Joyner: "Believer I Know:" The Emergence of Afro-American Christianity
Margaret Washington: Community Regulation and Cultural Specialization in Gullah Folk-Religion
William L. Andrews: The Politics of African-American Ministerial Autobiography from Reconstruction to the 1920s
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes: The Politics of "Silence": Dual-Sex Political Systems and Women's Traditions of Conflict in African-American Religion
Randall K. Burkett: The Black Church in the Years of Crisis: J.C. Austin and Pilgrim Baptist Church, 1927-1950
Clayborne Carson: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the African-American Social Gospel

About the author

Paul E. Johnson is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and the author of A Shopkeeper's Millennium (1978).

Summary

Focuses on the history of African-American religion from the slavery period to the present. Beginning with an essay on the importance of the story of Exodus among African-American Christians and concluding with a work on Martin Luther King, Jr's religious development, this title illuminates the fusion of African and Christian traditions.

Product details

• Authors: Paul E. Johnson
• Assisted by: Paul E. Johnson (Editor), Johnson Paul E. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.07.1994
• EAN: 9780520075948
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07594-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; USA, Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations, Christianity, History of Religion, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Church history, Black & Asian Studies, Other Nonconformist & Evangelical Churches, Other Nonconformist and Evangelical Churches, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General