Slavery And The Church
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Author |
: Katharine Gerbner |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2018-02-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812294903 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812294904 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christian Slavery by : Katharine Gerbner
Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Slave owners in the Caribbean and elsewhere established governments and legal codes based on an ideology of "Protestant Supremacy," which excluded the majority of enslaved men and women from Christian communities. For slaveholders, Christianity was a sign of freedom, and most believed that slaves should not be eligible for conversion. When Protestant missionaries arrived in the plantation colonies intending to convert enslaved Africans to Christianity in the 1670s, they were appalled that most slave owners rejected the prospect of slave conversion. Slaveholders regularly attacked missionaries, both verbally and physically, and blamed the evangelizing newcomers for slave rebellions. In response, Quaker, Anglican, and Moravian missionaries articulated a vision of "Christian Slavery," arguing that Christianity would make slaves hardworking and loyal. Over time, missionaries increasingly used the language of race to support their arguments for slave conversion. Enslaved Christians, meanwhile, developed an alternate vision of Protestantism that linked religious conversion to literacy and freedom. Christian Slavery shows how the contentions between slave owners, enslaved people, and missionaries transformed the practice of Protestantism and the language of race in the early modern Atlantic world.
Author |
: Joel S. Panzer |
Publisher |
: Saint Pauls/Alba House |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0818907649 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780818907647 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Popes and Slavery by : Joel S. Panzer
This book reveals how the Church has in the past and still does speak up decisively to halt the infamous trade in human flesh.
Author |
: Rodney Stark |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 504 |
Release |
: 2004-08-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691119502 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691119503 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis For the Glory of God by : Rodney Stark
Rodney Stark's provocative new book argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture. Continuing his project of identifying the widespread consequences of monotheism, Stark shows that the Christian conception of God resulted--almost inevitably and for the same reasons--in the Protestant Reformation, the rise of modern science, the European witch-hunts, and the Western abolition of slavery. In the process, he explains why Christian and Islamic images of God yielded such different cultural results, leading Christians but not Muslims to foster science, burn "witches," and denounce slavery. With his usual clarity and skepticism toward the received wisdom, Stark finds the origins of these disparate phenomena within monotheistic religious organizations. Endemic in such organizations are pressures to maintain religious intensity, which lead to intense conflicts and schisms that have far-reaching social results. Along the way, Stark debunks many commonly accepted ideas. He interprets the sixteenth-century flowering of science not as a sudden revolution that burst religious barriers, but as the normal, gradual, and direct outgrowth of medieval theology. He also shows that the very ideas about God that sustained the rise of science led also to intense witch-hunting by otherwise clear-headed Europeans, including some celebrated scientists. This conception of God likewise yielded the Christian denunciation of slavery as an abomination--and some of the fiercest witch-hunters were devoted participants in successful abolitionist movements on both sides of the Atlantic. For the Glory of God is an engrossing narrative that accounts for the very different histories of the Christian and Muslim worlds. It fundamentally changes our understanding of religion's role in history and the forces behind much of what we point to as secular progress.
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: |
Total Pages |
: 222 |
Release |
: 1848 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044018637157 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Church and Slavery by :
Author |
: Albert J. Raboteau |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 414 |
Release |
: 2004-10-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195174137 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195174135 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Slave Religion by : Albert J. Raboteau
Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the reactions to it over the past twenty-five years, and how he would write it differently today. Using a variety of first and second-hand sources-- some objective, some personal, all riveting-- Raboteau analyzes the transformation of the African religions into evangelical Christianity. He presents the narratives of the slaves themselves, as well as missionary reports, travel accounts, folklore, black autobiographies, and the journals of white observers to describe the day-to-day religious life in the slave communities. Slave Religion is a must-read for anyone wanting a full picture of this "invisible institution."
Author |
: Marcus Borg |
Publisher |
: Ulysses Press |
Total Pages |
: 130 |
Release |
: 1999-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781569751893 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1569751897 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lost Gospel Q by : Marcus Borg
Presents the original teachings of Jesus written by his contemporaries and early followers
Author |
: William Hosmer |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 1853 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCD:31175010736745 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Slavery and the Church by : William Hosmer
Author |
: Noel Leo Erskine |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2014-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195369144 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195369149 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plantation Church by : Noel Leo Erskine
In Plantation Church, Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans. Typically, when people talk about the "Black Church" they are referring to African-American churches in the U.S., but in fact, the majority of African slaves were brought to the Caribbean. It was there, Erskine argues, that the Black religious experience was born. The massive Afro-Caribbean population was able to establish a form of Christianity that preserved African Gods and practices, but fused them with Christian teachings, resulting in religions such as Cuba's Santería. Despite their common ancestry, the Black religious experience in the U.S. was markedly different because African Americans were a political and cultural minority. The Plantation Church became a place of solace and resistance that provided its members with a sense of kinship, not only to each other but also to their ancestral past. Despite their common origins, the Caribbean and African American Church are almost never studied together. This book investigates the parallel histories of these two strands of the Black Church, showing where their historical ties remain strong and where different circumstances have led them down unexpectedly divergent paths. The result will be a work that illuminates the histories, theologies, politics, and practices of both branches of the Black Church. This project presses beyond the nation state framework and raises intercultural and interregional questions with implications for gender, race and class. Noel Leo Erskine employs a comparative method that opens up the possibility of rethinking the language and grammar of how Black churches have been understood in the Americas and extends the notion of church beyond the United States. The forging of a Black Christianity from sources African and European, allows for an examination of the meaning of church when people of African descent are culturally and politically in the majority. Erskine also asks the pertinent question of what meaning the church holds when the converse is true: when African Americans are a cultural and political minority.
Author |
: Charles F. Irons |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 381 |
Release |
: 2009-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807888896 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807888893 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Origins of Proslavery Christianity by : Charles F. Irons
In the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals frequently prayed, sang, and worshipped together. Even though white evangelicals claimed spiritual fellowship with those of African descent, they nonetheless emerged as the most effective defenders of race-based slavery. As Charles Irons persuasively argues, white evangelicals' ideas about slavery grew directly out of their interactions with black evangelicals. Set in Virginia, the largest slaveholding state and the hearth of the southern evangelical movement, this book draws from church records, denominational newspapers, slave narratives, and private letters and diaries to illuminate the dynamic relationship between whites and blacks within the evangelical fold. Irons reveals that when whites theorized about their moral responsibilities toward slaves, they thought first of their relationships with bondmen in their own churches. Thus, African American evangelicals inadvertently shaped the nature of the proslavery argument. When they chose which churches to join, used the procedures set up for church discipline, rejected colonization, or built quasi-independent congregations, for example, black churchgoers spurred their white coreligionists to further develop the religious defense of slavery.
Author |
: Jennifer Oast |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2016-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107105270 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107105277 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Institutional Slavery by : Jennifer Oast
This book focuses on slave ownership in Virginia as it was practiced by a variety of institutions.