Down, Up, and Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology

Down, Up, and Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology
ISBN-10
1451407351
ISBN-13
9781451407358
Category
Religion
Pages
316
Language
English
Publisher
Fortress Press
Author
Dwight N. Hopkins

Description

"First reconstructs the culutral matrix of African American religion, a total way of life formed by Protestantism, American culture, and the institution of slavery (1619-1865). Whites from Europe and Blacks from Africa arrived with specific, differing views of God, faith, and humanity. Hopkins recreates their worldviews and shows how white theology sought to remake African Americans into naturally inferior beings divinely ordained into subservience. The counter voice of enslaved blacks is the birth of the Spirit of liberation." -- Back cover.

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