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CHAPTER 6: African American Religion & Nationhood

CHAPTER 6: African American Religion & Nationhood. Slavery. slave trade, 1600s-1700s West Africa importation of slaves outlawed, 1808. By the 19 th century, 20% of the national population was African American. West African Religious Worldviews. sense of community ancestors

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CHAPTER 6: African American Religion & Nationhood

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  1. CHAPTER 6:African American Religion & Nationhood

  2. Slavery • slave trade, 1600s-1700s • West Africa • importation of slaves outlawed, 1808 By the 19th century, 20% of the national population was African American.

  3. West African Religious Worldviews • sense of community • ancestors • continuity with spirit world • high God as creator • Tricksters (spiders, hares)

  4. West African Religious Practices • storytelling • animal sacrifice • divination • music & dance • possession • magic for healing or harm

  5. New Land, New Religion • new Tricksters • Brer Rabbit • conjure & root work • voodoo in New Orleans • elements of Catholicism

  6. Black Christianity • some became Catholic • use of material elements in ritual • Saints as intermediaries • many became Protestant • Methodist & Baptist

  7. Invisible Institution • slave revolts • unsupervised meetings banned • hush harbors • spirituals • ring shout

  8. Sources of African American Religion • West African background • condition of slavery • language of European Christianity

  9. The Black Church in Freedom • blacks within white denominations • separate seating or churches • independent black churches • black denominations • A.M.E. • A.M.E. Zion

  10. 20th-Century Black Religion • migration to North • migration to cities • urbanization • growing class divisions • Afro-Caribbean immigrants

  11. Holiness and Pentecostal Religion • presence of the Spirit • gospel music • healing • sanctified life • new esteem for blackness • Charles Mason & COGIC

  12. Religious Combinations • Peace Mission Movement • Father Divine • prosperity • Spiritual churches of New Orleans • Haitian vodou • Afro-Cuban Santeria

  13. The Religion of Blackness • Marcus Garvey • Ethiopianism • Rastafarianism • Moorish Science Temple • Wallace D. Fard

  14. Nation of Islam • Elijah Poole/Elijah Muhammad • Yakub’s History • Malcolm X • Wallace D. (Warith) Muhammad • Louis Farrakhan

  15. Blackness and Christianity • Martin Luther King, Jr. • civil rights movement • James Cone • influence of W.E.B. DuBois • black liberation theology • Cornell West

  16. OVERVIEW • slave trade • West African traditions • invisible institution • growth of the black church • religion of blackness

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