The Negro Church Report of a Social Study Made under the Direction of Atlanta University; Together with the Proceedings of the Eighth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, May 26th, 1903

by Bois, Du W. E. B.; Zuckerman, Phil; Barnes, Sandra; Cady, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780759103283
• ISBN10: 0759103283
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-25
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

A new edition of Du Bois's pathbreaking sociological work on the black church.

Table of Contents

The Negro Church: An Introduction by Phil Zuckerman, Sandra L. Barnes, and Daniel Cady	vii
Preface	xxvii
Bibliography	xxviii
1. Primitive Negro Religion	1	(1)
2. Effect of Transplanting	2	(3)
3. The Obeah Sorcery	5	(1)
4. Slavery and Christianity	6	(4)
5. Early Restrictions	10	(2)
6. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel	12	(3)
7. The Moravians, Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians	15	(5)
8. The Sects and Slavery	20	(2)
9. Toussaint L'Ouverture and Nat Turner	22	(4)
10. Third Period of Missionary Enterprise	26	(4)
11. The Earlier Churches and Preachers. (By Mr. John W. Cromwell)	30	(5)
12. Some Other Ante-Bellum Preachers	35	(2)
13. The Negro Church in 1890	37	(12)
14. Local Studies, 1902-3	49	(8)
15. A Black Belt County, Georgia. (By the Rev. W. H. Holloway)	57	(7)
16. A Town in Florida. (By Annie Marion MacLean, Ph. D.)	64	(5)
17. A Southern City	69	(11)
18. Virginia	80	(3)
19. The Middle West, Illinois (By Monroe N. Work, A. M., and the Editor)	83	(9)
20. The Middle West, Ohio. (By R. R. Wright, Jr.)	92	(16)
21. An Eastern City	108	(3)
22. Present Condition of Churches-The Baptists	111	(12)
23. The African Methodists	123	(8)
25. The Zion Methodists	131	(2)
26. The Colored Methodists	133	(1)
27. The Methodists	134	(4)
28. The Episcopalians	138	(4)
29. The Presbyterians	142	(5)
30. The Congregationalists	147	(6)
31. Summary of Negro Churches, 1900-1903	153	(1)
32. Negro Laymen and the Church	154	(10)
33. Southern Whites and the Negro Church	164	(12)
34. The Moral Status of Negroes	176	(9)
35. Children and the Church	185	(5)
36. The Training of Ministers	190	(12)
37. Some Notable Preachers	202	(1)
38. The Eighth Atlanta Conference	202	(2)
39. Remarks of Dr. Washington Gladden	204	(3)
40. Resolutions	207	(2)
Index	209