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Black is a church : Christianity and the contours of African American life /

"Across four chapters that proceed as chronologically organized episodes, Black is a Church maps the ways in which black American culture and identity have been animated by a particular set of often unmarked Protestant logics. In doing so, it tracks the entangled discourses of racial authentici...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sorett, Josef (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
African Americans > Religion > History.
Protestantism > United States > History.
Race > Religious aspects > Christianity.
African Americans > Social life and customs > History.
Slave narratives > History and criticism.
African Americans > Religion.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
Noirs américains > Religion.
Protestantisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Mœurs et coutumes.
Récits d'esclaves > Histoire et critique.
Literature & the Arts.
Christianity.
RELIGION.
Religion.
History.
Christian Church.
African Americans > Religion
African Americans > Social life and customs
Protestantism
Race > Religious aspects > Christianity
Slave narratives
United States
Religion & beliefs.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The literary beginning(s) of Afro-Protestantism
  • Afro-Protestantism, pluralism(s) and the problem of the color line
  • Afro-Protestantism and the politics of (studying) Black life
  • The Afterlives of Afro-Protestantism.