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African American Religious History : A Documentary Witness /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sernett, Milton C., 1942- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1999.
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Traditional Ibo religion and culture / Olaudah Equuiano
  • African religions in colonial Jamaica / Bryan Edwards
  • Slave conversion on the Carolina frontier / Francis Le Jau
  • Address to the negroes in the state of New York / Jupiter Hammon
  • Letters from pioneer Black Baptists / George Liele and Andrew Bryan
  • A Black Puritan's farewell / Lemuel Haynes
  • Plantation churches : visible and invisible / Peter Randolph
  • Proud of that 'ole time' religion / Sister Kelly
  • Conjuration and witchcraft / Henry Bibb
  • Great moral dilemma / James W.C. Pennington
  • Religion and slave insurrection / Nat Turner
  • Slaveholding religion and the Christianity of Christ / Frederick Douglass
  • Slave songs and spirituals / Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Life experience and gospel labors / Richard Allen
  • Rise of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church / Christopher Rush
  • A female preacher among the African Methodists / Jarena Lee
  • African Baptists celebrate emancipation in New York state / Nathaniel Paul
  • Our wretchedness in consequence of the preachers of religion / David Walker
  • Mrs. Stewart's farewell address to her friends in the city of Boston / Maria Stewart
  • To the citizens of New York / Peter Williams
  • Black churches in New York City, 1840 / Charles B. Ray
  • Protesting the "negro pew" / Jeremiah Asher
  • I will not live a slave / Jermain W. Loguen
  • Welcome to the ransomed / Daniel Alexander Payne
  • From slave to preacher among the freedmen / Isaac Lane
  • The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church / Lucius H. Holsey
  • Black religion in the post-Reconstruction South / William Wells Brown
  • Education in the A.M.E. Church / Daniel Alexander Payne
  • The travail of a female colored evangelist / Amanda Smith
  • The regeneration of Africa / Alexander Crummell
  • Emigration to Africa / Henry McNeal Turner
  • The first African American Catholic congress, 1889 / African American Catholics
  • 1899 presidential address to the National Baptist Convention / Elias C. Morris
  • Bishop C.H. Mason, Church of God in Christ / Elsie W. Mason
  • Of the faith of the fathers / W.E.B. Dubois
  • The race problem in a Christian state, 1906 / Reverdy C. Ransom
  • What induced me to build a school in the rural district / Rosa Young
  • Address on the great migration / African Methodist Episcopal Council of Bishops
  • Dear Mary and My dear sister / Letters on the second exodus
  • Social work at Olivet Baptist Church / S. Mattie Fisher and Mrs. Jessie Mapp
  • Effects of urbanization on religious life / Lacy Kirk Williams
  • Report of the work of Baptist women / Nannie H. Burroughs
  • Address to the Suehn Industrial Mission, Liberia / Jasper C. Caston
  • A letter from the "foreign field" / Lula E. Cooper
  • Things of the Spirit / Carter G. Woodson
  • The genius of the negro church / Benjamin E. Mays and Joseph W. Nicholson
  • The churches of Bronzeville / St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton
  • Garvey tells his own story / Marcus Garvey
  • Organized religion and the cults / Miles Mark Fischer
  • Black Judaism in Harlem / Rabbi Matthew
  • The realness of God, to you-wards / Father Divine
  • Elder Lucy Smith / Herbert Morrisohn Smith
  • Self-government in the new world / Wallace D. Muhammad
  • National Baptist philosophy of civil rights / Joseph H. Jackson
  • Letter from Birmingham jail-- April 16, 1963 / Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Singing of good tidings and freedom / Mahalia Jackson
  • The anatomy of segregation and ground of hope / Howard Thurman
  • "Black power" statement, July 31, 166, and "Black theology" statement, June 13, 1969 / National Conference on Black Churchmen
  • Black theology and the Black church : where do we go from here? / James H. Cone
  • The Black churches : a new agenda / Lawrence N. Jones.