{"product_id":"african-american-religious-history-9780822324492","title":"African American Religious History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and the black theology. This work includes documents, such as personal narratives, sermons, letters, protest pamphlets, early denominational histories, and theological statements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom reviews of the first edition: \"Anyone interested in America's religious past, and, specifically the black religious experience will be rewarded by reading and urging others to read this fine 'anthology.'\" - Robert Michael Franklin, Journal of the American Academy of Religion \"Sernett deserves the highest marks for this collection.\"-Stephen J. Stein, Religious Studies Review \" . . this book will long stand as a major and valuable tool for the study of Afro-American religious history.\" - Sandy D. Martin, The Black Scholar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Second Edition ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e I. From Africa Through Early America \u003cbr\u003e 1. Traditional Ibo Religion and Culture \/ Olaudah Equiano 13\u003cbr\u003e 2. African Religions in Colonial Jamaica \/ Bryan Edwards 20\u003cbr\u003e 3. Slave Conversion on the Carolina Frontier \/ Francis Le Jau 25\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"Address to the Negroes in the State of New York\" \/ Jupiter Hammon 34\u003cbr\u003e 5. Letters from Pioneer Black Baptists \/ George Liele and Andrew Bryan 44\u003cbr\u003e 6. A Black Puritan's Farewell \/ Lemuel Haynes 52\u003cbr\u003e II. Slave Religions in the Antebellum South \u003cbr\u003e 7. Plantation Churches: Visible and Invisible \/ Peter Randolph 63\u003cbr\u003e 8. \"Proud of the 'Ole Time' Religion\" \/ Sister Kelly 69\u003cbr\u003e 9. Conjuration and Witchcraft \/ Henry Bibb 76\u003cbr\u003e 10. \"Great Moral Dilemma\" \/ James W.C. Pennington 81\u003cbr\u003e 11. Religion and Slave Insurrection \/ Nat Turner 89\u003cbr\u003e 12. Slaveholding Religion and the Christianity of Christ \/ Frederick Douglass 102\u003cbr\u003e 13. Slave Songs and Spirituals \/ Thomas Wentworth Higginson 112\u003cbr\u003e III. Black Churches North of Slavery and the Freedom Struggle \u003cbr\u003e 14. \"Life Experience and Gospel Labors\" \/ Richard Allen 139\u003cbr\u003e 15. Rise of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church \/ Christopher Rush 155\u003cbr\u003e 16. A Female Preacher among the African Methodists \/ Jarena Lee 164\u003cbr\u003e 17. African Baptists Celebrate Emancipation in New York State \/ Nathaniel Paul 185\u003cbr\u003e 18. \"Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Preachers of Religion\" \/ David Walker 193\u003cbr\u003e 19. \"Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston\" \/ Maria Stewart 202\u003cbr\u003e 20. \"To the Citizens of New York\" \/ Peter Williams 211\u003cbr\u003e 21. Black Churches in New York City, 1840 \/ Charles B. Ray 218\u003cbr\u003e 22. Protesting the \"Negro Pew\" \/ Jeremiah Asher 224\u003cbr\u003e 23. \"I Will Not Live a Slave\" \/ Jermain W. Loguen 228\u003cbr\u003e 24. \"Welcome to the Ransomed\" \/ Daniel Alexander Payne 232\u003cbr\u003e IV. Freedom's Time of Trial: 1865-World War I \u003cbr\u003e 25. From Slave to Preacher among the Freedmen \/ Isaac lane 245\u003cbr\u003e 26. \"The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church\" \/ Lucius H. Holsey 252\u003cbr\u003e 27. Black Religion in the Post-Reconstruction South \/ William Wells Brown 256\u003cbr\u003e 28. \"Education in the A.M.E. Church\" \/ Daniel Alexander Payne 261\u003cbr\u003e 29. The Travail of a Female Colored Evangelist \/ Amanda Smith 270\u003cbr\u003e 30. \"The Regeneration of Africa\" \/ Alexander Crummell 282\u003cbr\u003e 31. Emigration to Africa \/ Henry McNeal Turner 289\u003cbr\u003e 32. The First African American Catholic Congress, 1889 \/ African American Catholics 296\u003cbr\u003e 33. 1899 Presidential Address to the National Baptist Convention \/ Elias C. Morris 301\u003cbr\u003e 34. Bishop C.H. Mason, Church of God in Christ \/ Elsie W. Mason 314\u003cbr\u003e 35. \"Of the Faith of the Fathers\" \/ W.E.B. Dubois 325\u003cbr\u003e 36. \"The Race Problem in a Christian State, 1906\" \/ Reverdy C. Ransom 337\u003cbr\u003e 37. \"What Induced Me to Build a School in the Rural District\" \/ Rosa Young 347\u003cbr\u003e V. From the Great Migration to World war II \u003cbr\u003e 38. Address on the Great Migration \/ African Methodist Episcopal Council of Bishops 359\u003cbr\u003e 39. \"Dear Mary\" and \"My dear Sister\" \/ Letters on the Second Exodus 364\u003cbr\u003e 40. Social Work at Olivet Baptist Church \/ S. Mattie Fisher and Mrs. Jessie Mapp 368\u003cbr\u003e 41. Effects of Urbanization on Religious Life \/ Lacy Kirk Williams 372\u003cbr\u003e 42. Report of the Work of Baptist Women \/ Nannie H. Burroughs 376\u003cbr\u003e 43. Address to the Suehn Industrial Mission, Liberia \/ Jasper C. Caston 403\u003cbr\u003e A Letter from the \"Foreign Field\" \/ Lula E. Cooper 410\u003cbr\u003e 44. \"Things of the Spirit\" \/ Carter G. Woodson 415\u003cbr\u003e 45. \"The Genius of the Negro Church\" \/ Benjamin E. Mays and Joseph W. Nicholson 423\u003cbr\u003e 46. \"The Churches of Bronzeville\" \/ St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Clayton 435\u003cbr\u003e VI. Twentieth-Century Religious Alternatives \u003cbr\u003e 47. Garvey Tells His Own Story \/ Marcus Garvey 453\u003cbr\u003e 48. \"Organized Religion and the Cults\" \/ Miles Mark Fischer 464\u003cbr\u003e 49. Black Judaism in Harlem \/ Rabbi Matthew 473\u003cbr\u003e 50. \"The Realness of God, to you-wards...\" \/ Father Divine 478\u003cbr\u003e 51. Elder Lucy Smith \/ Herbert Morrisohn Smith 487\u003cbr\u003e 52. \"Self-Government in the New World\" \/ Wallace D. Muhammad 499\u003cbr\u003e VII. CIvil Rights, Black Theology, and Beyond \u003cbr\u003e 53. \"National Baptist Philosophy of Civil Rights\" \/ Joseph H. Jackson 511\u003cbr\u003e 54. \"Letter from Birmingham Jail--April 16, 1963\" \/ Martin Luther King, Jr. 519\u003cbr\u003e 55. Singing of Good Tidings and Freedom \/Mahalia Jackson 536\u003cbr\u003e 56. \"The Anatomy of Segregation and Ground of Hope\" \/ Howard Thurman 548\u003cbr\u003e 57. \"Black Power\" Statement, July 31, 1966, and \"Black Theology\" Statement, June 13, 1969 555\u003cbr\u003e 58. \"Black Theology and the Black Church: Where Do We Go From Here?\" \/ James H. Cone 567\u003cbr\u003e 59. \"The Black Churches: A New Agenda\" \/ Lawrence N. Jones 580\u003cbr\u003e Index 589","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406024646999,"sku":"9780822324492","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822324492.jpg?v=1730494283","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-american-religious-history-9780822324492","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}