Down by the Riverside: Readings in African American Religion

An introductory overview of the development of African American religion and theologyDown by the Riverside provides an...
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Author: Larry Murphy
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Down by the Riverside: Readings in African American Religion by Murphy, Larry

Down by the Riverside: Readings in African American Religion

Dhs. 291.02

Down by the Riverside: Readings in African American Religion

Dhs. 291.02
Author: Larry Murphy
Format: Paperback
Language: English

An introductory overview of the development of African American religion and theology

Down by the Riverside
provides an expansive introduction to the development of African American religion and theology. Spanning the time of slavery up to the present, the volume moves beyond Protestant Christianity to address a broad diversity of African American religion from Conjure, Orisa, and Black Judaism to Islam, African American Catholicism, and humanism.

This accessible historical overview begins with African religious heritages and traces the transition to various forms of Christianity, as well as the maintenance of African and Islamic traditions in antebellum America. Preeminent contributors include Charles Long, Gayraud Wilmore, Albert Raboteau, Manning Marable, M. Shawn Copeland, Vincent Harding, Mary Sawyer, Toinette Eugene, Anthony Pinn, and C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence Mamiya. They consider the varieties of religious expression emerging from migration from the rural South to urban areas, African American women's participation in Christian missions, Black religious nationalism, and the development of Black Theology from its nineteenth-century precursors to its formulation by James Cone and later articulations by black feminist and womanist theologians. They also draw on case studies to provide a profile of the Black Christian church today.
This thematic history of the unfolding of religious life in African America provides a window onto a rich array of African American people, practices, and theological positions.

Author: Larry Murphy
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 11/01/2000
Pages: 450
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.92lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780814755815


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/15/1999 pg. 763
Black Issues Book Review 01/01/2002 pg. 22

About the Author
Murphy, Larry: - Larry G. Murphy is Associate Professor of History of Christianity at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary/Northwestern University. He was also Senior Researcher, Religion in Urban America Program, at the University of Illinois and an editor of The Encyclopedia of African American Religions

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