This faith has enabled them to challenge America's self-image as "The Promised Land" and to fight the institutions of racism."-Jacket. Covering many traditions - Baptist revivals, the AME Church, Black Catholics, African orisa religions - Raboteau reveals the pervasive faith of African-Americans that God was an actor in their history. In his first book since the classic, Slave Religion, Albert Raboteau shows how the active faith of African-Americans shaped their religious institutions and forged the struggle for social justice throughout their history. Through his efforts and those of scholars working in other Religious Studies and History departments, the field developed an identity and research agenda that expanded on longer. |a "A Fire in the Bones is a fascinating and moving collection of essays from one of America's most prominent scholars of religious history. With Albert Raboteau’s arrival in 1982, Princeton’s Department of Religion became one of a handful in which one could receive a Ph.D. |t A hidden wholeness: Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr. |t The performed word: religious practice: |t Minority within a minority: the history of the Black Catholics in America. |t The Black church: continuity without change. |t Richard Allen and the African Church Movement. |t Under their own vine and fig tree: the Black church: |t "How far the promised land?": Black religion and Black protest. |t "Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands": Black destiny in nineteenth-century America.
|t African-Americans, Exodus and the American Israel.
|t In search of the promised land: African-American religion and American destiny: |t Praying the abcs: reflections on faith in history. |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-214) and index. |b reflections on African-American religious history /
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