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From the earliest literary productions of the eighteenth century to the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the twenty-first century, religion--namely Protestant Christianity--has been encoded in black life in North America. Black is a Church invites attention to the surprising alliances, peculiar performances, and at times contradictory ideas and complex institutions that shape the contours black life in the United States.

Produktbeschreibung
From the earliest literary productions of the eighteenth century to the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the twenty-first century, religion--namely Protestant Christianity--has been encoded in black life in North America. Black is a Church invites attention to the surprising alliances, peculiar performances, and at times contradictory ideas and complex institutions that shape the contours black life in the United States.
Autorenporträt
Josef Sorett is Dean of Columbia College and Vice President of Undergraduate Education at Columbia University, where he is also Professor of Religion & African American and African Diaspora Studies. He is the author of Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics (OUP, 2016).