Paul Harvey

Through the Storm, Through the Night (eBook, ePUB)

A History of African American Christianity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 provides a lively overview of the history of African American religion, beginning with the birth of African Christianity amidst the Transatlantic slave trade, and tracing the story through its growth in America. Paul Harvey successfully uses the history of African American religion to portray the complexity and humanity of the African American experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780742564756
• Artikelnr.: 38222012

Autorenporträt

Paul Harvey is distinguished professor of history and presidential teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and the author of numerous books on American religious history including, with Rowman & Littlefield, Through the Storm, Through the Night: A History of African American Christianity (CHOICEOutstanding), and Bounds of Their Habitation: Race and Religion in American History. He is the coauthor with Edward J. Blum of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in American History, named as one of the top 25 academic books of the year by CHOICE and as one of the Best 5 Books on Religion for 2012 by Publishers Weekly.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Themes in African American Religious History
Chapter 1: Middle Passage for the Gods: African and African American
Religions from the Middle Passage to the Great Awakening
Chapter 2: The Birth of Afro-Christianity in the Slave Quarters and the
Urban North, 1740-1831
Chapter 3: Through the Night: African American Religion in the Antebellum
Era
Chapter 4: Day of Jubilee: Black Churches from Emancipation to the Era of
Jim Crow
Chapter 5: Jesus on the Mainline: Black Christianity from the Great
Migration through World War II
Chapter 6: Freedom's Main Line: Black Christianity, Civil Rights, and
Religious Pluralism
Epilogue: Righteous Anger and Visionary Dreams: Contemporary Black
Politics, Religion, and Culture
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