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- catalog abstract ""A Fire in the Bones is a fascinating and moving collection of essays from one of America's most prominent scholars of religious 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. 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. This faith has enabled them to challenge America's self-image as "The Promised Land" and to fight the institutions of racism."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b8124272.
- catalog coverage "United States Church history.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description ""A Fire in the Bones is a fascinating and moving collection of essays from one of America's most prominent scholars of religious 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. 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. This faith has enabled them to challenge America's self-image as "The Promised Land" and to fight the institutions of racism."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: Praying the abcs: reflections on faith in history -- pt. 1. In search of the promised land: African-American religion and American destiny: African-Americans, Exodus and the American Israel -- "Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands": Black destiny in nineteenth-century America -- "How far the promised land?": Black religion and Black protest -- pt. 2. Under their own vine and fig tree: the Black church: Richard Allen and the African Church Movement -- The Black church: continuity without change -- Minority within a minority: the history of the Black Catholics in America -- pt. 3. The performed word: religious practice: The chanted sermon -- The conversion experience -- A hidden wholeness: Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Epilogue: A fire in the bones.".
- catalog extent "xi, 224 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Fire in the bones.".
- catalog identifier "0807009326".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fire in the bones.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Beacon Press,".
- catalog relation "Fire in the bones.".
- catalog spatial "United States Church history.".
- catalog subject "277.3/08/08996073 20".
- catalog subject "African Americans Religion.".
- catalog subject "BR563.N4 R24 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: Praying the abcs: reflections on faith in history -- pt. 1. In search of the promised land: African-American religion and American destiny: African-Americans, Exodus and the American Israel -- "Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands": Black destiny in nineteenth-century America -- "How far the promised land?": Black religion and Black protest -- pt. 2. Under their own vine and fig tree: the Black church: Richard Allen and the African Church Movement -- The Black church: continuity without change -- Minority within a minority: the history of the Black Catholics in America -- pt. 3. The performed word: religious practice: The chanted sermon -- The conversion experience -- A hidden wholeness: Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Epilogue: A fire in the bones.".
- catalog title "A fire in the bones : reflections on African-American religious history / Albert J. Raboteau.".
- catalog type "Church history. fast".
- catalog type "text".