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Through the storm, through the night : a history of African American Christianity /
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, he covers the ongoing tug-of-war between themesof "respectability" versus practices...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
2011.
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| Colección: | African American history series (Lanham, Md.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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, he covers the ongoing tug-of-war between themesof "respectability" versus practices derived from an African heritage; the adoption of Christianity by the majority; and the critique of the adoption of the "white man's religion" from the eighteenth century to the present. The book also covers internal cultural, gendered, and class divisions in churches that attracted congregants of widely dis. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 217 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780742564756 0742564754 0742564738 0742564746 9780742564749 1283151871 9781283151870 9786613151872 6613151874 9780742564732 |