African American Religious History : A Documentary Witness /

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This widely-heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and black theology of today. The documents-many of them rare, out-of-print, or difficult to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sernett, Milton C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2000]
Colección:The C. Eric Lincoln series on the Black experience : 44
Temas:
African Americans > Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I. FROM AFRICA THROUGH EARLY AMERICA
  • 1 OLAUDAH EQUIANO, Traditional Ibo Religion and Culture
  • 2 BRYAN EDWARDS, African Religions in Colonial Jamaica
  • 3 FRANCIS LE JAU, Slave Conversion on the Carolina Frontier
  • 4 JUPITER HAMMON, ''Address to the Negroes in the State of New York"
  • 5 GEORGE LIELE AND ANDREW BRYAN, Letters from Pioneer Black Baptists
  • 6 LEMUEL HAYNES, A Black Puritan's Farewell
  • II. SLAVE RELIGION IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH
  • 7 PETER RANDOLPH, Plantation Churches: Visible and Invisible
  • 8 SISTER KELLY, "Proud of that 'Ole Time' Religion"
  • 9 HENRY BIBB, Conjuration and Witchcraft
  • 10 JAMES W. C. PENNINGTON, "Great Moral Dilemma"
  • 11 NAT TURNER, Religion and Slave Insurrection
  • 12 FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Slaveholding Religion and the Christianity of Christ
  • 13 THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, Slave Songs and Spirituals
  • III. BLACK CHURCHES NORTH OF SLAVERY AND THE FREEDOM STRUGGLE
  • 14 RICHARD ALLEN, "Life Experience and Gospel Labors"
  • 15 CHRISTOPHER RUSH, Rise of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
  • 16 JARENA LEE, A Female Preacher among the African Methodists
  • 17 NATHANIEL PAUL, African Baptists Celebrate Emancipation in New York State
  • 18 DAVID WALKER, "Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Preachers of Religion"
  • 19 MARIA STEWART, "Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston"
  • 20 PETER WILLIAMS, "To the Citizens of New York"
  • 21 CHARLES B. RAY, Black Churches in New York City, 1840
  • 22 JEREMIAH ASHER, Protesting the "Negro Pew"
  • 23 JERMAIN W. LOGUEN, "I Will Not Live a Slave"
  • 24 DANIEL ALEXANDER PAYNE, "Welcome to the Ransomed"
  • IV. FREEDOM'S TIME OF TRIAL: 1865-WORLD WAR I
  • 25 ISAAC LANE, From Slave to Preacher among the Freedmen
  • 26 LUCIUS H. HOLSEY, "The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church"
  • 27 WILLIAM WELLS BROWN, Black Religion in the Post-Reconstruction South
  • 28 DANIEL ALEXANDER PAYNE, "Education in the A.M.E. Church"
  • 29 AMANDA SMITH, The Travail of a Female Colored Evangelist
  • 30 ALEXANDER CRUMMELL, "The Regeneration of Africa"
  • 31 HENRY MCNEAL TURNER, Emigration to Africa
  • 32 AFRICAN AMERICAN CATHOLICS, The First African American Catholic Congress, 1889
  • 33 ELIAS C. MORRIS, 1899 Presidential Address to the National Baptist Convention
  • 34 ELSIE W. MASON, Bishop C. H. Mason, Church of God in Christ
  • 35 w. E. B. DUBOIS, "Of the Faith of the Fathers"
  • 36 REVERDY C. RANSOM, "The Race Problem in a Christian State, 1906"
  • 37 ROSA YOUNG, "What Induced Me to Build a School in the Rural District"
  • V. FROM THE GREAT MIGRATION TO WORLD WAR II
  • 38 AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL COUNCIL OF BISHOPS, Address on the Great Migration
  • 39 LETTERS ON THE SECOND EXODUS: "Dear Mary" and "My dear Sister"
  • 40 S. MATTIE FISHER AND MRS. JESSIE MAPP, Social Work at Olivet Baptist Church
  • 41 LACY KIRK WILLIAMS, Effects of Urbanization on Religious Life
  • 42 NANNIE H. BURROUGHS, Report of the Work of Baptist Women
  • 43 JASPER C. CASTON, Address to the Suehn Industrial Mission, Liberia
  • LULA E. COOPER, A Letter from the "Foreign Field"
  • 44 CARTER G. WOODSON, "Things of the Spirit"
  • 45 BENJAMIN E. MAYS AND JOSEPH W. NICHOLSON, "The Genius of the Negro Church"
  • 46 ST. CLAIR DRAKE AND HORACE R. CAYTON, "The Churches of Bronzeville"
  • VI. TWENTIETH-CENTURY RELIGIOUS ALTERNATIVES
  • 47 MARCUS GARVEY, Garvey Tells His Own Story
  • 48 MILES MARK FISCHER, "Organized Religion and the Cults"
  • 49 RABBI MATTHEW, Black Judaism in Harlem
  • 50 FATHER DIVINE, "The Realness of God, to you-wards ... "
  • 51 HERBERT MORRISOHN SMITH, Elder Lucy Smith
  • 52 WALLACE D. MUHAMMAD, "Self-Government in the New World"
  • VII. CIVIL RIGHTS, BLACK THEOLOGY, AND BEYOND
  • 53 JOSEPH H. JACKSON, "National Baptist Philosophy of Civil Rights
  • 54 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., "Letter from Birmingham Jail-April 16, 1963"
  • 55 MAHALIA JACKSON, Singing of Good Tidings and Freedom
  • 56 HOWARD THURMAN, "The Anatomy of Segregation and Ground of Hope"
  • 57 NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK CHURCHMEN, "Black Power" Statement, July 31, 1966, and "Black Theology" Statement, June 13, 1969
  • 58 JAMES H. CONE, "Black Theology and the Black Church: Where Do We Go from Here?"
  • 59 LAWRENCE N. JONES, "The Black Churches: A New Agenda"
  • Index

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