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African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness (C. Eric Lincoln Series on the Black Experience)
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by Milton C. Sernett
Sales Rank: 114141
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Cover Type: Paperback with 595 pages
Published by: Duke University PressEdition: 2nd Edition December 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0822324490
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0822324492
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 5.9 x 1.5 inches
Weighs: 2.1 pounds
Product Review
“[E]ven more useful and consonant with recent themes in the scholarly literature [than the first edition]. . . . Essential for students of American religious history.”
--Paul Harvey, Religious Studies Review
“This book remains one of the premier choices for a collection of documentary histories on African American religion. This second edition is greatly improved over the first. . . . [A]n great documentary collection . . . . Highly recommended for all levels. . .”
--L. H. Mamiya, Choice
“[A]n effective tool for the study and introduction to many of the ideas, issues, and people in African American religious history. . . . [T]he . . . accessible primary source material in a concise form as an introduction to particular topics is invaluable. Those who use the text with knowledge of African American History will find it an interesting springboard for article and research topics. Others assigned to read excerpts from the text as part of course requirements will find it accessible and entertaining. In short, this is a text that has legs, so to speak, and will serve a variety of tasks quite well. . . .”
--Anthea Butler, H-Net Reviews
“Sernett’s book provides a masterfully ‘wrapped around’ selection of insights that should lead to greater appreciation of the impact of African American religious tradition on American culture as a whole.”
--Nan Sumner-Mack, Providence
Book Description
This widely-heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious History from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and black theology of today. The documents—many of them rare, out-of-print, or difficult to find—include personal narratives, sermons, letters, protest pamphlets, early denominational histories, journalistic accounts, and theological statements. In this volume Olaudah Equiano describes Ibo religion. Lemuel Haynes gives a black Puritan’s farewell. Nat Turner confesses. Jarena Lee becomes a female preacher among the African Methodists. Frederick Douglass discusses Christianity and slavery. Isaac Lane preaches among the freedmen. Nannie Helen Burroughs reports on the work of Baptist women. African Methodist bishops deliberate on the Great Migration. Bishop C. H. Mason tells of the Pentecostal experience. Mahalia Jackson recalls the glory of singing at the 1963 March on Washington. Martin Luther King, Jr. writes from the Birmingham jail.
Originally published in 1985, this expanded second edition includes new sources on women, African missions, and the Great Migration. Milton C. Sernett provides a general introduction as well as historical context and comment for each document.
Reader Reviews
Sernett's volume is the single-best collection of primary materials related to the African-American religious experinece. It attemps to piece together important religious narratives from colonial time until the present. As such,documents include slave narratives, narratives from early church founders (Allen, Jarena Lee, etc.), and documents from the civil rights and black power movement. The documents are all fairly condensed and, as such, it is ideal for the class room. It would be an excellent text to use in an African American religion, African American history, Black Church, or American Religious history survey course.
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