CHAPTER 6: African American Religion & Nationhood.
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Transcript of CHAPTER 6: African American Religion & Nationhood.
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CHAPTER 6:African American Religion
& Nationhood
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Slavery
• slave trade, 1600s-1700so West Africa
• importation of slaves outlawed, 1808
By the 19th century, 20% of the national population was
African American.
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West African Religious Worldviews
• sense of community
• ancestors
• continuity with spirit world
• high God as creator
• Tricksters (spiders, hares)
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West African Religious Practices
• storytelling
• animal sacrifice
• divination
• music & dance
• possession
• magic for healing or harm
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New Land, New Religion
• new Tricksterso Brer Rabbit
• conjure & root worko voodoo in New Orleans o elements of Catholicism
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Black Christianity
• some became Catholico use of material elements in ritualo Saints as intermediaries
• many became Protestanto Methodist & Baptist
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Invisible Institution
• slave revolts o unsupervised meetings banned
• hush harbors
• spirituals
• ring shout
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Sources of African American Religion
1) West African background
2) condition of slavery
3) language of European Christianity
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The Black Church in Freedom
1) blacks within white denominationso separate seating or churches
2) independent black churches
3) black denominationso A.M.E.o A.M.E. Zion
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20th-Century Black Religion
• migration to North
• migration to citieso urbanizationo growing class divisions
• Afro-Caribbean immigrants
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Holiness and Pentecostal Religion
• presence of the Spirit
• gospel music
• healing
• sanctified life
• new esteem for blackness
• Charles Mason & COGIC
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Religious Combinations
• Peace Mission Movemento Father Divineo prosperity
• Spiritual churches of New Orleans
• Haitian vodou
• Afro-Cuban Santeria
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The Religion of Blackness
• Marcus Garvey
• Ethiopianism
• Rastafarianism
• Moorish Science Templeo Wallace D. Fard
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Nation of Islam
• Elijah Poole/Elijah Muhammad
• Yakub’s History
• Malcolm X
• Wallace D. (Warith) Muhammad
• Louis Farrakhan
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Blackness and Christianity
• Martin Luther King, Jr.o civil rights movement
• James Coneo influence of W.E.B. DuBoiso black liberation theology
• Cornell West
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OVERVIEW
• slave trade
• West African traditions
• invisible institution
• growth of the black church
• religion of blackness