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

English

Series: African American History Ser.

ISBN: 2370003447

EAN: 2370003447644

Category: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies/Religion / Christian Church / History/

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Release Date: 09/16/2011

Synopsis: 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 themes of "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 disparate educational levels, incomes, and worship styles.

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

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - EPUB

Pages: 232