African American religious history : a documentary witness / [print]
edited by Milton C. Sernett.
- second edition.
- Durham : Duke University Press, (c)1999.
- x, 595 pages ; 25 cm.
- The C. Eric Lincoln series on the Black experience .
- C. Eric Lincoln series on the Black experience. .
Revised edition of: Afro-American religious history.
Traditional Ibo religion and culture African religions in colonial Jamaica Slave conversion on the Carolina frontier Address to the negroes in the state of New York Letters from pioneer Black Baptists A Black Puritan's farewell Plantation churches : visible and invisible Proud of that 'ole time' religion Conjuration and witchcraft Great moral dilemma Religion and slave insurrection Slaveholding religion and the Christianity of Christ Slave songs and spirituals Life experience and gospel labors Rise of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church A female preacher among the African Methodists African Baptists celebrate emancipation in New York state Our wretchedness in consequence of the preachers of religion Mrs. Stewart's farewell address to her friends in the city of Boston To the citizens of New York Black churches in New York City, 1840 Protesting the "negro pew" I will not live a slave Welcome to the ransomed From slave to preacher among the freedmen The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church Black religion in the post-Reconstruction South Education in the A.M.E. Church The travail of a female colored evangelist The regeneration of Africa Emigration to Africa The first African American Catholic congress, 1889 1899 presidential address to the National Baptist Convention Bishop C.H. Mason, Church of God in Christ Of the faith of the fathers The race problem in a Christian state, 1906 What induced me to build a school in the rural district Address on the great migration Dear Mary and My dear sister Social work at Olivet Baptist Church Effects of urbanization on religious life Report of the work of Baptist women Address to the Suehn Industrial Mission, Liberia A letter from the "foreign field" Things of the Spirit The genius of the negro church The churches of Bronzeville Garvey tells his own story Organized religion and the cults Black Judaism in Harlem The realness of God, to you-wards Elder Lucy Smith Self-government in the new world National Baptist philosophy of civil rights Letter from Birmingham jail-- April 16, 1963 Singing of good tidings and freedom The anatomy of segregation and ground of hope "Black power" statement, July 31, 166, and "Black theology" statement, June 13, 1969 Black theology and the Black church : where do we go from here? The Black churches : a new agenda Olaudah Equuiano Bryan Edwards Francis Le Jau Jupiter Hammon George Liele and Andrew Bryan Lemuel Haynes Peter Randolph Sister Kelly Henry Bibb James W.C. Pennington Nat Turner Frederick Douglass Thomas Wentworth Higginson Richard Allen Christopher Rush Jarena Lee Nathaniel Paul David Walker Maria Stewart Peter Williams Charles B. Ray Jeremiah Asher Jermain W. Loguen Daniel Alexander Payne Isaac Lane Lucius H. Holsey William Wells Brown Daniel Alexander Payne Amanda Smith Alexander Crummell Henry McNeal Turner African American Catholics Elias C. Morris Elsie W. Mason W.E.B. Dubois Reverdy C. Ransom Rosa Young African Methodist Episcopal Council of Bishops Letters on the second exodus S. Mattie Fisher and Mrs. Jessie Mapp Lacy Kirk Williams Nannie H. Burroughs Jasper C. Caston Lula E. Cooper Carter G. Woodson Benjamin E. Mays and Joseph W. Nicholson St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton Marcus Garvey Miles Mark Fischer Rabbi Matthew Father Divine Herbert Morrisohn Smith Wallace D. Muhammad Joseph H. Jackson Martin Luther King Jr. Mahalia Jackson Howard Thurman National Conference on Black Churchmen James H. Cone Lawrence N. Jones.
This widely heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and black theology of today.