Down by the Riverside

Readings in African American Religion

By: Larry Murphy (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 December 2000

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An introductory overview of the development of African American religion and theology

Down by the Riverside provides an expansive introduction to the development of African American religion and theology. Spanning the time of slavery up to the present, the volume moves beyond Protestant Christianity to address a broad diversity of African American religion from Conjure, Orisa, and Black Judaism to Islam, African American Catholicism, and humanism.

This accessible historical overview begins with African religious heritages and traces the transition to various forms of Christianity, as well as the maintenance of African and Islamic traditions in antebellum America. Preeminent contributors include Charles Long, Gayraud Wilmore, Albert Raboteau, Manning Marable, M. Shawn Copeland, Vincent Harding, Mary Sawyer, Toinette Eugene, Anthony Pinn, and C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence Mamiya. They consider the varieties of religious expression emerging from migration from the rural South to urban areas, African American women's participation in Christian missions, Black religious nationalism, and the development of Black Theology from its nineteenth-century precursors to its formulation by James Cone and later articulations by black feminist and womanist theologians. They also draw on case studies to provide a profile of the Black Christian church today.
This thematic history of the unfolding of religious life in African America provides a window onto a rich array of African American people, practices, and theological positions.

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It serves as a smorgasbord of the study of black spirituality.-- "Black Issues Book Review"

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Introduction	p. 1
Thematic, Contextual Prisms for Understanding African American Religion
Perspectives for a Study of African American Religion	p. 9
African Americans, Exodus, and the American Israel	p. 20
What Is African American Christianity?	p. 26
The Religious Dimension: "The Black Sacred Cosmos"	p. 32
From the Motherland to Another Land: The Emergence of African American Religion in the Antebellum United States
Black Religion: The African Model	p. 41
"The Rule of Gospel Order": Religious Life in the Slave Community	p. 49
Sources of Black Denominationalism	p. 59
Pre-Twentieth Century Islam	p. 69
Memoir of Abraham	p. 81
The Idea of Missions	p. 85
Black Women in Religious Institutions: A Historical Summary from Slavery to the 1960s	p. 97
"Slavery's Chains Done Broke At Las'": African American Religion in the Aftermath of Slavery
The Gospel and the Primer	p. 109
The Black Faith of W. E. B. Du Bois: Sociocultural and Political Dimensions of Black Religion	p. 122
"All Things to All People": The Functions of the Black Church in the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century	p. 133
The Redemption of Africa and Black Religion	p. 141
A Shift of Locus and Focus: African American Religion and the Transition into the Twentieth Century
"Everyone Is Welcome": North the the Promised Land	p. 155
The Grip of the Negro Church	p. 160
The Development of Gospel Song	p. 175
The Black Roots of Pentecostalism	p. 189
Expanding the Options: Diversification in African American Religious Expression
The Second Emergence of Islam	p. 203
The Voodoo Cult among Negro Migrants in Detroit	p. 208
Father Major Jealous Divine	p. 221
Black Judaism in the United States	p. 225
The Historical Development of Black Spiritual Churches	p. 232
Orisha Worship in the United States	p. 243
African American Yorubas in Harlem and the Transition to Oyotunji Village	p. 256
The Other Kind of Doctor: Conjure and Magic in Black American Folk Medicine	p. 260
African Americans and Humanism	p. 273
"Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?": African American Religion and Social Advocacy
In Search of the Promised Land	p. 289
The Black Church and Black Politics: Models of Ministerial Activism	p. 293
Black Religion and Social Change: Women in Leadership Roles	p. 303
Black Religious Nationalism and the Politics of Transcendence	p. 317
The Dialectical Model of the Black Church	p. 329
Profiles of the Contemporary African American Church
Rural, Urban Clergy and Churches	p. 339
The Black Denominations and the Ordination of Women	p. 367
The Churches and Broader Developments in Black Religion: Two Congregational Case Studies	p. 381
Claiming a Theological Voice: Black and Womanist Theologies in the Twentieth Century
Black Theology as Liberation Theology	p. 389
Statement by the National Committee of Black Churchmen, June 13, 1969	p. 414
Statement by the National Committe of Black Churchmen, Third Annual Convocation, November 11-14, 1969	p. 417
African American Catholics and Black Theology: An Interpretation	p. 423
"Lifting as We Climb": Womanist Theorizing about Religion and the Family	p. 434
Looking Back to the Future
Survival, Elevation, and Liberation in Black Religion	p. 447
Fighting for Freedom with Church Fans: To Know What Religion Means	p. 469
Appendixes
Timeline of the African American Religious Experience	p. 482
Filmography of the African American Religious Experience	p. 488
Acknowledgements	p. 489
Index	p. 493
About the Editor	p. 496
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