African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction

Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction

Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Abstract

African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction explores the history and circumstances of African American religion through three examples: conjure, African American Christianity, and African American Islam. It argues that the phrase “African American religion” is meaningful only insofar as it describes how through religion, African Americans have responded to oppressive conditions. This bold claim frames the interpretation of the historical record of diverse religious experiences in the African American community. The common tendency to racialize African American religious experiences as an inherent proclivity towards religiousness is rejected and instead the focus is on how religious communities and experiences have developed in the African American community and the context in which these developments took place.

Keywords: African Americans, African American Religion, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Catholic Church, Church of God in Christ, Civil Rights Act of 1875, civil rights movement, Zora Neale Hurston, Islam, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Association of Colored Women, National Baptist Convention, National Council of Negro Women, Nation of Islam, Souls of Black Folk, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, World War II

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Aug 2014

Print ISBN-13:: 9780195182897

Published online:: Sep 2014

DOI:: 10.1093/actrade/9780195182897.001.0001

Author

Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies, Princeton University

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