Through the Storm, Through the Night: A History of African American Christianity

Through the Storm, Through the Night provides a lively overview of the history of African American religion, beginning with the birth of African Christianity amidst the Transatlantic slave trade, and tracing the story through its growth in America. Noted author and historian Paul Harvey illustrates how black Christian traditions provided theological, institutional, and personal strategies for cultural survival during bondage and into an era of partial freedom. At the same time, Harvey covers the ongoing tug-of-war between themes of "respectability" versus practices derived from an African heritage; the adoption of Christianity by the majority of African Americans; and the critique of the adoption of the "white man's religion" from the eighteenth century to the present. The book also covers internal cultural, gendered, and class divisions in churches that attracted congregants of widely disparate educational levels, incomes, and worship styles.


Author: Paul Harvey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 10/22/2013
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.60w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780742564749
ISBN10: 0742564746
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | History
- Religion | Christianity | History
- History | United States | General

About the Author
Paul Harvey is professor of history at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is the author of Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925 and Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era.