Fortress Introduction to Black Church History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fortress Introduction to Black Church History write by Anne H. Pinn. This book was released on . Fortress Introduction to Black Church History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume, co-authored by a black minister and a black theologian, provides an overview of the shape and history of major black religious bodies: Methodist, Baptist, and Pentecostal. It introduces the denominations and their demographics before relating their historical development into the groups that are known today.
Down in the Valley
Down in the Valley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Down in the Valley write by Julius H. Bailey. This book was released on 2016-04-08. Down in the Valley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. African American religions constitute a diverse group of beliefs and practices that emerged from the African diaspora brought about by the Atlantic slave trade. Traditional religions that had informed the worldviews of Africans were transported to the shores of the Americas and transformed to make sense of new contexts and conditions. This book explores the survival of traditional religions and how African American religions have influenced and been shaped by American religious history. The text provides an overview of the central people, issues, and events in an account that considers Protestant denominations, Catholicism, Islam, Pentecostal churches, Voodoo, Conjure, Rastafarianism, and new religious movements such as Black Judaism, the Nation of Islam, and the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors. The book addresses contemporary controversies, including President Barack Obamas former pastor Jeremiah Wright, and it will be valuable to all students of African American religions, African American studies, sociology of religion, American religious history, the Black Church, and black theology.
Fortress Introduction to the History of Christianity in the United States
Fortress Introduction to the History of Christianity in the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fortress Introduction to the History of Christianity in the United States write by Nancy Koester. This book was released on 2007. Fortress Introduction to the History of Christianity in the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. * Primary text for undergraduates and seminary students
The Social Teaching of the Black Churches
The Social Teaching of the Black Churches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Teaching of the Black Churches write by Peter J. Paris. This book was released on 1985-01-01. The Social Teaching of the Black Churches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In African American culture, the church is instrumental in establishing and maintaining social order. Professor Paris shows that a study of black church teachings reveals black social ethics. These ethics aren't "abstract moral principles, but sociopolitical quests for liberation and freedom."
Joy Unspeakable
Joy Unspeakable - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Joy Unspeakable write by Barbara A. Holmes. This book was released on 2017-10-15. Joy Unspeakable available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Joy Unspeakable focuses on the aspects of the Black church that point beyond particular congregational gatherings toward a mystical and communal spirituality not within the exclusive domain of any denomination. This mystical aspect of the black church is deeply implicated in the well-being of African American people but is not the focus of their intentional reflection. Moreover, its traditions are deeply ensconced within the historical memory of the wider society and can be found in Coltrane's riffs, Malcolm's exhortations, the social activism of the Black Lives Matter Movement and the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. The research in this book-through oral histories, church records, and written accounts--details not only ways in which contemplative experience is built into African American collective worship but also the legacy of African monasticism, a history of spiritual exemplars, and unique meditative worship practices. A groundbreaking work in its original edition, Joy Unspeakable now appears in a new, revised edition to address the effects of this contemplative tradition on activism and politics and to speak to a new generation of readers and scholars.
