A Fire in the Bones Reflections on African-American Religious History

by Raboteau, Albert J.

• ISBN13: 9780807009338
• ISBN10: 0807009334
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-19
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

'Raboteau provides the single best general introduction to (Black Church History) so far in print.

Author Biography

Albert J. Raboteau, author of Slave Religion, is Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion at Princeton University.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Prologue Praying the ABCs: Reflections on Faith in History	1	(16)
PART I In Search of the Promised Land: African-American Religion and American Destiny	17	(62)
1. African-Americans, Exodus, and the American Israel	17	(20)
2. "Ethiopia Shall Soon Stretch Forth Her Hands": Black Destiny in Nineteenth-Century America	37	(20)
3. "How Far the Promised Land?" Black Religion and Black Protest	57	(22)
PART II Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The Black Church	79	(62)
4. Richard Allen and the African Church Movement	79	(24)
5. The Black Church: Continuity within Change	103	(14)
6. Minority within a Minority: The History of Black Catholics in America	117	(24)
PART III The Performed Word: Religious Practice	141	(42)
7. The Chanted Sermon	141	(11)
8. The Conversion Experience	152	(14)
9. A Hidden Wholeness: Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.	166	(17)
Epilogue A Fire in the Bones	183	(14)
Notes	197	(18)
Index	215