African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness

Herausgeber: Sernett, Milton C.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"From reviews of the first edition": Anyone interested in America's religioius past, and, specifically the black religious experience will be rewarded by reading and urging others to read this fine anthology."--Robert Michael Franklin, "Journal of the American Academy of Religion ""Sernett deserves the highest marks for this collection."--Stephen J. Stein, "Religious Studies Review"

Produktdetails

• The C. Eric Lincoln the Black
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822324263
• ISBN-10: 0822324261
• Artikelnr.: 42992249

Autorenporträt

Milton C. Sernett, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Second Edition ix
Introduction 1
I. From Africa Through Early America
1. Traditional Ibo Religion and Culture / Olaudah Equiano 13
2. African Religions in Colonial Jamaica / Bryan Edwards 20
3. Slave Conversion on the Carolina Frontier / Francis Le Jau 25
4. "Address to the Negroes in the State of New York" / Jupiter Hammon 34
5. Letters from Pioneer Black Baptists / George Liele and Andrew Bryan 44
6. A Black Puritan's Farewell / Lemuel Haynes 52
II. Slave Religions in the Antebellum South
7. Plantation Churches: Visible and Invisible / Peter Randolph 63
8. "Proud of the 'Ole Time' Religion" / Sister Kelly 69
9. Conjuration and Witchcraft / Henry Bibb 76
10. "Great Moral Dilemma" / James W.C. Pennington 81
11. Religion and Slave Insurrection / Nat Turner 89
12. Slaveholding Religion and the Christianity of Christ / Frederick
Douglass 102
13. Slave Songs and Spirituals / Thomas Wentworth Higginson 112
III. Black Churches North of Slavery and the Freedom Struggle
14. "Life Experience and Gospel Labors" / Richard Allen 139
15. Rise of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church / Christopher Rush
155
16. A Female Preacher among the African Methodists / Jarena Lee 164
17. African Baptists Celebrate Emancipation in New York State / Nathaniel
Paul 185
18. "Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Preachers of Religion" / David
Walker 193
19. "Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston"
/ Maria Stewart 202
20. "To the Citizens of New York" / Peter Williams 211
21. Black Churches in New York City, 1840 / Charles B. Ray 218
22. Protesting the "Negro Pew" / Jeremiah Asher 224
23. "I Will Not Live a Slave" / Jermain W. Loguen 228
24. "Welcome to the Ransomed" / Daniel Alexander Payne 232
IV. Freedom's Time of Trial: 1865-World War I
25. From Slave to Preacher among the Freedmen / Isaac lane 245
26. "The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church" / Lucius H. Holsey 252
27. Black Religion in the Post-Reconstruction South / William Wells Brown
256
28. "Education in the A.M.E. Church" / Daniel Alexander Payne 261
29. The Travail of a Female Colored Evangelist / Amanda Smith 270
30. "The Regeneration of Africa" / Alexander Crummell 282
31. Emigration to Africa / Henry McNeal Turner 289
32. The First African American Catholic Congress, 1889 / African American
Catholics 296
33. 1899 Presidential Address to the National Baptist Convention / Elias C.
Morris 301
34. Bishop C.H. Mason, Church of God in Christ / Elsie W. Mason 314
35. "Of the Faith of the Fathers" / W.E.B. Dubois 325
36. "The Race Problem in a Christian State, 1906" / Reverdy C. Ransom 337
37. "What Induced Me to Build a School in the Rural District" / Rosa Young
347
V. From the Great Migration to World war II
38. Address on the Great Migration / African Methodist Episcopal Council of
Bishops 359
39. "Dear Mary" and "My dear Sister" / Letters on the Second Exodus 364
40. Social Work at Olivet Baptist Church / S. Mattie Fisher and Mrs. Jessie
Mapp 368
41. Effects of Urbanization on Religious Life / Lacy Kirk Williams 372
42. Report of the Work of Baptist Women / Nannie H. Burroughs 376
43. Address to the Suehn Industrial Mission, Liberia / Jasper C. Caston 403
A Letter from the "Foreign Field" / Lula E. Cooper 410
44. "Things of the Spirit" / Carter G. Woodson 415
45. "The Genius of the Negro Church" / Benjamin E. Mays and Joseph W.
Nicholson 423
46. "The Churches of Bronzeville" / St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Clayton
435
VI. Twentieth-Century Religious Alternatives
47. Garvey Tells His Own Story / Marcus Garvey 453
48. "Organized Religion and the Cults" / Miles Mark Fischer 464
49. Black Judaism in Harlem / Rabbi Matthew 473
50. "The Realness of God, to you-wards..." / Father Divine 478
51. Elder Lucy Smith / Herbert Morrisohn Smith 487
52. "Self-Government in the New World" / Wallace D. Muhammad 499
VII. CIvil Rights, Black Theology, and Beyond
53. "National Baptist Philosophy of Civil Rights" / Joseph H. Jackson 511
54. "Letter from Birmingham Jail--April 16, 1963" / Martin Luther King, Jr.
519
55. Singing of Good Tidings and Freedom /Mahalia Jackson 536
56. "The Anatomy of Segregation and Ground of Hope" / Howard Thurman 548
57. "Black Power" Statement, July 31, 1966, and "Black Theology" Statement,
June 13, 1969 555
58. "Black Theology and the Black Church: Where Do We Go From Here?" /
James H. Cone 567
59. "The Black Churches: A New Agenda" / Lawrence N. Jones 580
Index 589