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Through the Storm, Through the Night: A History of African American Christianity

Through the Storm, Through the Night: A History of African American Christianity

Harvey, Paul
Moore, Jacqueline M.
Mjagkij, Nina

Paperback

Series: African American Experience

Religion General General ChristianityGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0742564746
ISBN13: 9780742564749
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Oct 22 2013
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

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 themes of 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 disparate educational levels, incomes, and worship styles.

Through the Storm, Through the Night provides a lively overview of the history of African American religion, beginning with the birth of African Christianity amidst the Transatlantic slave trade, and tracing the story through its growth in America. Paul Harvey successfully uses the history of African American religion to portray the complexity and humanity of the African American experience.

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