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27-05-2008
The Black Church in America: African American Christian Spirituality
by Michael Battle
Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006
272 pp, hardcover / pbk
ISBN: 9781405118910, hardcover
ISBN10: 1405118911
ISBN: 9781405118927, pbk
ISBN10: 140511892X
Series: Religious Life in America
About this Book This book gives readers a broad understanding of the Black Church in America and a sense of its uniqueness in the wider world. It explores the history of the Black Church in America, its African roots, beliefs, practices, politics, and contemporary moral dilemmas. It argues that in the Black Church, individual and communal destiny are bound together.
About the Author
Michael Battle served as Assistant Professor of Spirituality and Black Church Studies at Duke University and Rector of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North Carolina before moving to Virginia Theological Seminary. He was also Vice Chairman of the board of the Ghandi Institute.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: An Amphibious Worldview
1. Emergence of What is African
African Warnings
What is African?
2. The Particularity of African American Spirituality
3. The Black Church in the Shadow of Slavery
The Scourge of Slavery
The Survival of Africanism
The Emergence of Black Denominations
4. Communal Worship
The Controversy of Emotionalism
‘Spiritual Song' and the Emergence of Black Denominations
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
African American Baptists Churches
National Baptist Convention, USA
African American Pentecostalism
Black Worship
5. Inviting Others to Be Black
African vs. Black: Dialectic Tension
James Cone and Desmond Tutu
African and Black: Communal Synthesis
6. The Black Church as the Beloved Community
King's View: Prophecy and Nonviolence
African American Responses to King
King's Dream of the Beloved Community
Communal Antithesis for King
7. Embodying African American Spirituality
A Churchless Black Church
A Womanless Black Church
The Full Embodiment of the Black Church
Timeline of the Black Church
Websites for Historic Black Denominations
Bibliography
Index
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