Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780820336336
- American literature-African American authors-History and criticism
- Christianity and literature-United States-History-18th century
- Christianity and literature-United States-History-19th century
- Religion and politics-United States-History-18th century
- Religion and politics-United States-History-19th century
- African Americans-Religion
- Civil rights-Religious aspects-Christianity
- African American evangelists
- 810.93823
- PS153.N5M2695 2008
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Jupiter Hammon and the Written Beginnings of Black Theology -- Chapter Two. Phillis Wheatley and the Charge toward Progressive Black Theologies -- Chapter Three. John Marrant and the Narrative Construction of an Early Black Methodist Evangelical -- Chapter Four. Prince Hall and the Influence of Revolutionary Enlightenment Philosophy on the Institutionalization of Black Religion -- Chapter Five. Richard Allen and the Further Institutionalization of Black Theologies -- Chapter Six. Maria Stewart and the Mission of Black Women in Evangelicalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
This study focuses on the role of early African American Christianity in the formation of American egalitarian religion and politics. It also provides a new context for understanding how black Christianity and evangelism developed, spread, and interacted with transatlantic religious cultures of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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