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Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (168 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780820336336
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835DDC classification:
  • 810.93823
LOC classification:
  • PS153.N5M2695 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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