Through the Storm, Through the Night

A History of African American Christianity

By:

Paul Harvey

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Paperback / softback

Series:

The African American Experience Series

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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. Noted author and historian 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, Harvey covers the ongoing tug-of-war between themes of "respectability" versus practices derived from an African heritage; the adoption of Christianity by the majority of African Americans; 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.

Author Biography:

Paul Harvey is professor of history at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is the author of Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865–1925 and Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era.

Release date Australia

October 22nd, 2013

Author

Paul Harvey

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Series edited by Jacqueline M. Moore
Series edited by Nina Mjagkij

Pages

232

Series

The African American Experience Series

Dimensions

142x218x15

ISBN-13

9780742564749

Product ID

21583031

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