African American Religion - A very short introduction

African American Religion - A very short introduction
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  • ISBN 978-0-19518-289-7
Since the first African American denomination was established in Philadelphia in 1818, churches... mehr
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Since the first African American denomination was established in Philadelphia in 1818, churches have gone beyond their role as spiritual guides in African American communities and have served as civic institutions, spaces for education, and sites for the cultivation of individuality and identities in the face of limited or non-existent freedom. 

In this Very Short Introduction, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. explores the history and circumstances of African American religion through three examples: conjure, African American Christianity, and African American Islam. He argues that the phrase "African American religion " is meaningful only insofar as it describes how through religion, African Americans have responded to oppressive conditions including slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, and the pervasive and institutionalized discrimination that 
exists today. This bold claim frames his interpretation of the historical record of the wide diversity of religious experiences in the African American community. He rejects the common tendency to racialize African American religious experiences as an inherent proclivity towards religiousness and instead focuses on how religious communities and experiences have developed in the African American community and the context in which these developments took place.

Portrait
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University.

Sprache: Englisch
Autor: Eddie S. Glaude
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Genre: Religionswissenschaft
Thema: Religion
Land: Vereinigtes Königreich Grossbritannien und Nordirland
Jahr: 2014
Seitenzahl: 142
Länge: 17.2cm
Breite: 10.8cm
Dicke: 8mm
Gewicht: 127g
Einband: Taschenbuch
Zielgruppe: Amerika Affine, Rastafari
Serie: Very short introduction
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