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基本説明
Explores the history of the Black Church in America, its African roots, beliefs, practices, politics, and contemporary moral dilemmas.
Full Description
This book gives readers a broad understanding of the Black Church in America and a sense of its uniqueness in the wider world.
Explores the history of the Black Church in America, its African roots, beliefs, practices, politics, and contemporary moral dilemmas
Argues that in the Black Church, individual and communal destiny are bound together
The author is a Priest in the Episcopal Church and teaches spirituality and Black Church studies at Duke University.
Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: An Amphibious Worldview xi
1 Emergence of What is African 1
African Warnings 1
What is African? 12
2 The Particularity of African American Spirituality 23
3 The Black Church in the Shadow of Slavery 43
The Scourge of Slavery 46
The Survival of Africanism 57
The Emergence of Black Denominations 60
4 Communal Worship 66
The Controversy of Emotionalism 70
"Spiritual Song" and the Emergence of Black Denominations 72
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church 77
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church 77
African American Baptists Churches 78
National Baptist Convention, USA 85
African American Pentecostalism 86
Black Worship 88
5 Inviting Others to Be Black 98
African vs. Black: Dialectic Tension 103
James Cone and Desmond Tutu 106
African and Black: Communal Synthesis 115
6 The Black Church as the Beloved Community 127
King's View: Prophecy and Nonviolence 133
African American Responses to King 144
King's Dream of the Beloved Community 152
Communal Antithesis for King 154
7 Embodying African American Spirituality 163
A Churchless Black Church 165
A Womanless Black Church 169
The Full Embodiment of the Black Church 176
Timeline of the Black Church 183
Websites for Historic Black Denominations 203
Bibliography 204
Index 216
