African American Religious Studies: An Interdisciplinary AnthologyGayraud S. Wilmore Duke University Press, 1989 - 468 pages Gayraud S. Wilmore is Professor of Church History and Afro-American Religious Studies at The Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He has published numerous articles and booksl including Black Witness to the Apostolic Faith, David Shannon, co-ed.; Black and Presbyterian: The Heritage and the Hope; and Last Things First. Professor Wilmore is the recpicient of the Bruce Klunder Award of the Presbyterian Interracial Councils (1969), the Sward of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Harlem (1971), and various honorary degrees. |
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Page xvii
... Christian schol- ars insist upon the existential appropriation , authentication , and enrichment of Black faith as one of the objectives of African American Religious Studies . We are obliged to be what we are - Black Christians . We ...
... Christian schol- ars insist upon the existential appropriation , authentication , and enrichment of Black faith as one of the objectives of African American Religious Studies . We are obliged to be what we are - Black Christians . We ...
Page xxii
... Christian churches , acts to establish powerful psychosomatic moods and motivations in believers by evoking conceptions of a generally hostile world , which Blacks frequently attribute to white oppression and in which both provisional ...
... Christian churches , acts to establish powerful psychosomatic moods and motivations in believers by evoking conceptions of a generally hostile world , which Blacks frequently attribute to white oppression and in which both provisional ...
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... Christian evangelization , did not begin until the first half of the twentieth century when a few folklorists , anthropologists , sociologists and psychologists began to debate such issues as the provenience and meaning of the African ...
... Christian evangelization , did not begin until the first half of the twentieth century when a few folklorists , anthropologists , sociologists and psychologists began to debate such issues as the provenience and meaning of the African ...
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... Christian religion related to Black people and gives us important insights into Christianization efforts in the New World . Lincoln is the author of many books and articles on African American religion and teaches in the field of the ...
... Christian religion related to Black people and gives us important insights into Christianization efforts in the New World . Lincoln is the author of many books and articles on African American religion and teaches in the field of the ...
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... Christian religion , tradition takes on a compelling significance , the ramifica- tions of which are now , two ... Christians who want to shuck off their identification with white , American Christianity because the white expression of ...
... Christian religion , tradition takes on a compelling significance , the ramifica- tions of which are now , two ... Christians who want to shuck off their identification with white , American Christianity because the white expression of ...
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