"Ethiopia Shall Soon Stretch Forth Her Hands": Black Destiny in Nineteenth-Century America. African-Americans, Exodus, and the American Israel. In Search of the Promised Land: African-American Religion and American Destiny.
Covering many traditions - Baptist revivals, the AME Church, Black Catholics, African orisa religions - Raboteau reveals the pervasive faith of African-Americans that God was an actor in their 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 history. Raboteau Book Bib IDĪ Fire in the Bones is a fascinating and moving collection of essays from one of America's most prominent scholars of religious history. African American Religion combines meticulously researched historical facts with a fast-paced, engaging narrative that will appeal to readers of any age.A fire in the bones : reflections on African-American religious history / Albert J. From the African Methodist Episcopal Church to the Nation of Islam and from the first African slaves to Louis Farrakhan, this far-reaching book chronicles the evolution of an important and influential component of our religious and historical heritage. Raboteau traces the subtle blending of African tribal customs with the powerful Christian establishment, the migration to cities, the growth of Islam, and the 200-year fight for freedom and identity which was so often centered around African-American churches. Father Divine, a fiery preacher who established a large following in the 1920s and 1930s, convinced his disciples that he could cure not only disease and infirmity, but also poverty and racism.Īn in-depth examination of African-American history and religion, this comprehensive and lively book provides panoramic coverage of the black religious and social experience in America. Martin Luther King, Jr.-America's best-known champion of civil liberties-was a Baptist minister.
Throughout African-American history, religion has been indelibly intertwined with the fight against intolerance and racial prejudice.
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