African-American Religion Interpretive Essays in History and Culture

PART I MODELS FOR STUDYING AFRICAN-AMERICAN RELIGION1 David W. Wills -- The Central Themes of American Religious History: Pluralism, Puritanism, and the Encounter of Black and White2 Charles H. Long -- Perspectives for a Study of African-American Religion in the United States3 Sidney W. Mintz and Richard Price -- The Birth of African-American CulturePART II SLAVE RELIGIONLawrence W. Levine -- Slave Songs and Slave Consciousness: An Exploration in Neglected Sources5 Albert J. Raboteau -- The Black Experience in American Evangelicalism: The Meaning of Slavery6 Vincent Harding -- Religion and Resistance Among Ante-bellum Slaves, 1800-1860PART III THE BLACK CHURCH NORTH OF SLAVERY7 Will B. Gravely -- The Rise of African Churches in America (1786-1822): Re-examining the Contents8 Carol V. R. George -- Widening the Circle: The Black Church and the About the Abolitionist Crusade, 1830-1860PART IV EMANCIPATIONS, MISSION, AND BLACK DESTINYWilliam H. Becker -- The Black Church: Manhood and Mission 10 Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham -- The Black Church: A Gender Perspective11 Timothy E. Fulop -- The Future Golden Day of the Race: Millennialism and Black Americas in the Nadir, 1877-1901PART V URBANIZATION, NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS, AND SOCIAL ACTIVISM12 Hans A. Baer and Merill Singer -- Toward a Typology of Black Sectarianism as a Response to Racial Stratification13 C. Eric Lincoln -- The Muslim Mission in the Context of American Social History14 Iain MacRobert -- The Black Roots of Pentecostalism 15 Randall K. Burkett -- The Baptist Church in Years of Crisis: J. C. Austin and Pilgrim Baptist Church, 1926-195016 Clayborne Carson -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the African-American Social Gospel17 Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- The Roles of Church and Community Mothers: Ambivalent American Sexism or Fragmented African Familyhood?18 Michael W. Haris -- Conflict and Resolution in the Life of Thomas Andrew Dorsey19 Bruce Jackson -- The Other Kind of Doctor: Conjure and Magic in Black American Folk Medicine20 Karen McCarthy Brown -- Systematic Remembering, Systematic Forgetting: Ogou in Haiti

Biography

Timothy E. Fulop is Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Lecturer in the History of Christianity at Columbia Theological Seminary, and a contributor to the Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History (1995). Albert J. Raboteau is Putnam Professor of Religion at Princeton University and author of Slave Religion.

"...a splendid series of essays...It will serve both students and scholars well, and I look forward to using it in class." -- Michael Brown for Teaching Theology and Religion
"This collection contains 20 outstanding essays on African-American religion published from 1969 to 1994.Heiser, Fall 1997."
"[African-American Religion] brings together the rich and powerful insights of anthropologists, sociologists, historians, folklorists, and theologians [and] gives a broad and important overview of the religious experiences of African-Americans and their historical development. It is ideal for use in college, university, and seminary courses that encourage multicultural and interdisciplinary study of religion." -- Theology Today
"This collection offers some of the best in current and classic works on African-American religion
." -- Religious Studies Review
"[R]epresent[s] the best of the best with regard to scholarship on African-American religion. As a result, this is both a handy resource book for scholars and a fine text for teaching about the black church." -- Fides et Historia