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African American religions, 1500-2000 : colonialism, democracy, and freedom /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, Sylvester A., 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
African Americans > Religion.
United States > Church history.
Table of Contents:
  • Black Atlantic religion and Afro-European commerce
  • On religious matters
  • Colonial governance and religious subjectivity
  • Stateless bodies, African missions, and the Black Christian settler colony
  • Black political theology, White redemption, and soldiers for empire
  • Garveyism, anticolonialism, and state repression of Black religions
  • Fundamentalism, counterintelligence, and the "Negro rebellion"
  • Black religion, the security state, and the racialization of Islam
  • Conclusion: Black religion, freedom, and colonialism.