Through the Storm, Through the Night: A History of African American Christianity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780742564749)

Through the Storm, Through the Night provides a lively overview of the history of African American religion, beginning with the birth of African Christianity amidst the Transatlantic slave trade, and tracing the story through its growth in America. Noted author and historian Paul Harvey illustrates how black Christian traditions provided theological, institutional, and personal strategies for cultural survival during bondage and into an era of partial freedom. At the same time, Harvey covers the ongoing tug-of-war between themes of "respectability" versus practices derived from an African heritage; the adoption of Christianity by the majority of African Americans; and the critique of the adoption of the "white man's religion" from the eighteenth century to the present. The book also covers internal cultural, gendered, and class divisions in churches that attracted congregants of widely disparate educational levels, incomes, and worship styles.


Author: Paul Harvey
ISBN-10: 0742564746
ISBN-13: 9780742564749
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 10/22/2013
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.60w x 0.60d