African-American Religion

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 SlaveReligion.

• 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

"...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 andReligion"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." -- Fideset Historia