'Slave Religion' remains the pre-eminent synthesis of the religious life of slaves in the United States. This new edition considers the developments in the study of slavery, the religious encounter, religious culture, and reactions to the books over the past 25 years, as well as the ways the author would write it differently today.
Throughout African-American history, religion has been indelibly intertwined with the fight against intolerance and racial prejudice. Martin Luther King, Jr., America's best-known champion of civil liberties, was a Baptist minister. Father Divine, a fiery preacher who established a large following in the 1920s and 1930s, convinced his disciples ...
Exploring the faith of African Americans from slavery to the civil rights movement, Albert J. Raboteau shows how black Christians challenged America's self-image throughout our nation's history; how the earliest African-American religious institutions were shaped; and how African Americans have experienced religion-in conversion, in preaching and ...
Featuring a preface by Paul Radin, renowned authority on religion, and with a new intoduction by Princeton's Albert Raboteau, this collection includes six brief autobiographies of ex-slaves and offers a rich, emotionally-charged resource of spiritual and political liberation--a window into the soul of America.
Religion has played a crucial role in American immigration history as an institutional resource for migrants' social adaptation, as a map of meaning for interpreting immigration experiences, and as a continuous force for expanding the national ideal of pluralism. To explain these processes the editors of this volume brought together the ...
Examines the history of religious practice by African Americans and the development of religious institutions, regional movements, and important personalities from the time of slavery up to the twentieth century.
A Fire in the Bones is a fascinating and moving collection of essays from one of America's most prominent scholars of religious history. In his first book since the classic, Slave Religion, Albert Raboteau shows how the active faith of African-Americans shaped their religious institutions and forged the struggle for social justice throughout their ...
An engaging study of black catholics, their contributions to the Catholic church, and the challenges they face. These essays describe the experience of black Catholics in this country since their arrival in North america in the sixteenth century ujtil the present day. The essays highlight the difficulties black Catholics faced in their early ...
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