Since slavery times African-American religious thinkers have struggled to answer this question: Is Christianity a source of liberation or a source of oppression? In a study that reviews representative thinkers over the last 50 years, Chapman reviews the variety of ways that African-Americans have addressed this problem and how it has informed their work and lives.
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No issue placed a greater strain on the faith of African-American Christians than the problem of racial segregation and the support it received from white churches. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black denominational churches, black male theologians, integrationist thinkers, black male preachers, black theology, contemporary black church, white theologians, womanist theology, black theologians, slavery teachings, black caucuses, nationalist critique, black liberation theology, womanist theologians, white denominations, black oppression, black oppressed, white theology, liberating gospel, black religion, black power, black liberation struggle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Elijah Muhammad, Benjamin Mays, Martin Luther King, James Cone, Nation of Islam, Delores Williams, Howard Thurman, Jesus Christ, Albert Cleage, Howard University, Negro Christians, American Christianity, United States, World War, African-American Christian, New York, Black Messiah, Gayraud Wilmore, George Kelsey, Frederick Douglass, North America, Deotis Roberts, Old Testament, San Francisco, Alice Walker New!
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No issue placed a greater strain on the faith of African-American Christians than the problem of racial segregation and the support it received from white churches. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black denominational churches, black male theologians, integrationist thinkers, black male preachers, black theology, contemporary black church, white theologians, womanist theology, black theologians, slavery teachings, black caucuses, nationalist critique, black liberation theology, womanist theologians, white denominations, black oppression, black oppressed, white theology, liberating gospel, black religion, black power, black liberation struggle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Elijah Muhammad, Benjamin Mays, Martin Luther King, James Cone, Nation of Islam, Delores Williams, Howard Thurman, Jesus Christ, Albert Cleage, Howard University, Negro Christians, American Christianity, United States, World War, African-American Christian, New York, Black Messiah, Gayraud Wilmore, George Kelsey, Frederick Douglass, North America, Deotis Roberts, Old Testament, San Francisco, Alice Walker New!
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- Black Theology & Black Power by James H. Cone on 18 pages
- Black Theology: 1966-1979 v. 1: A Documentary History on 11 pages
- The Black Messiah by Albert G. Cleage on 7 pages
- My Soul Looks Back by James H. Cone on 6 pages
- A Black Theology of Liberation (Ethics and Society) by James H. Cone on 5 pages
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- New Day Begun: African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America by R. Drew Smith on page 212
- Episcopalians and Race: Civil War to Civil Rights (Religion in the South) by Gardiner H. Shattuck in Back Matter
- Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Interpretation of the Religious History of African Americans by Gayraud S. Wilmore in Back Matter
- Handbook of U.S. Theologies of Liberation by Miguel De La Torre in Back Matter
- Competing Visions of Islam in the United States: A Study of Los Angeles (Contributions to the Study of Religion) by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri in Back Matter
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