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Summary:

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 themesof "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 ...

Table of Contents:

• Middle passage for the gods: African and African American religions from the middle passage to the great awakening
• The birth of Afro-Christianity in the slave quarters and the urban North, 1740-1831
• Through the night: African American religion in the Antebellum Era
• Day of jubilee: Black churches from emancipation to the era of Jim Crow
• Jesus on the mainline: Black Christianity from the great migration through World War II
• Freedom's main line: Black Christianity, civil rights, and religious pluralism
• Epilogue: righteous anger and visionary dreams: contemporary Black politics, religion, and culture.

Author/Creator:

Harvey, Paul, 1961-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Through the storm, through the night: a history of African American Christianity [by Harvey, P.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Through the storm, through the night [by Harvey, P.] (Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011 — LCCN 2011006486)

Related Series:

African American history series (Lanham, Md.)

Subjects:

African Americans — Religion

United States — Church history

African Americans

Church history

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 217 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

BR563.N4 H3783 2011eb

ISBNs:

9780742564756 (e-book)
0742564754 (e-book)

OCLC Numbers:

742517154

Other Control Numbers:

EBC726688 (source: MiAaPQ)