Joseph L. Thomas and Douglas A. Sweeney
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195310566
- eISBN:
- 9780199851072
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310566.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter offers an introductory and reflective history of American Evangelical Christianity as it wrestled with the issues of race and ethnicity. In particular, it examines the history of ...
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This chapter offers an introductory and reflective history of American Evangelical Christianity as it wrestled with the issues of race and ethnicity. In particular, it examines the history of evangelical ministry across the racial divide, accommodations made to slavery and segregation, the rise of independent of black churches, and the impact of African American Christianity on white evangelicalism. This leads to better understanding of its manifest shortcomings as well as the positive strivings that evangelicalism has made in creating a less prejudiced and more inclusive church. However, it is observed that the biblical themes of spiritual liberation and human equality have worked together in the history of evangelicalism to make the Christian church a more biblical one, if not yet a perfect one. The history of evangelicalism indicates that one needs to the spiritual resources to find a solution to the present miasma.Less
This chapter offers an introductory and reflective history of American Evangelical Christianity as it wrestled with the issues of race and ethnicity. In particular, it examines the history of evangelical ministry across the racial divide, accommodations made to slavery and segregation, the rise of independent of black churches, and the impact of African American Christianity on white evangelicalism. This leads to better understanding of its manifest shortcomings as well as the positive strivings that evangelicalism has made in creating a less prejudiced and more inclusive church. However, it is observed that the biblical themes of spiritual liberation and human equality have worked together in the history of evangelicalism to make the Christian church a more biblical one, if not yet a perfect one. The history of evangelicalism indicates that one needs to the spiritual resources to find a solution to the present miasma.
Ennis B. Edmonds and Michelle A. Gonzalez
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814722343
- eISBN:
- 9780814722848
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814722343.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
The colonial history of the Caribbean created a context in which many religions, from indigenous to African-based to Christian, intermingled with one another, creating a rich diversity of religious ...
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The colonial history of the Caribbean created a context in which many religions, from indigenous to African-based to Christian, intermingled with one another, creating a rich diversity of religious life. This book offers the first comprehensive religious history of the region. It begins with the religious traditions of the Amerindians who flourished prior to contact with European colonizers, then details the transplantation of Catholic and Protestant Christianity and their centuries of struggles to become integral to the Caribbean's religious ethos, and traces the twentieth-century penetration of American Evangelical Christianity, particularly in its Pentecostal and Holiness iterations. The book also illuminates the influence of Africans and their descendants on the shaping of such religious traditions as Vodou, Santeria, Revival Zion, Spiritual Baptists, and Rastafari, and the success of Indian indentured laborers and their descendants in reconstituting Hindu and Islamic practices in their new environment.Less
The colonial history of the Caribbean created a context in which many religions, from indigenous to African-based to Christian, intermingled with one another, creating a rich diversity of religious life. This book offers the first comprehensive religious history of the region. It begins with the religious traditions of the Amerindians who flourished prior to contact with European colonizers, then details the transplantation of Catholic and Protestant Christianity and their centuries of struggles to become integral to the Caribbean's religious ethos, and traces the twentieth-century penetration of American Evangelical Christianity, particularly in its Pentecostal and Holiness iterations. The book also illuminates the influence of Africans and their descendants on the shaping of such religious traditions as Vodou, Santeria, Revival Zion, Spiritual Baptists, and Rastafari, and the success of Indian indentured laborers and their descendants in reconstituting Hindu and Islamic practices in their new environment.
