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African American Religion: Interpretive Essays in History and Culture Archived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-91458-2. Raboteau, Albert J. (1999). Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-514585-2. Vaughn, Steve.
The central theme of African-American popular religion, as well as abolitionists like Harriet Tubman, was the Old Testament God of Moses freeing the ancient Hebrews from Egyptian rulers. [15] Likewise, Cone based much of his liberationist theology on God's deliverance of Israel from Egypt in the Book of Exodus .
The Black church (sometimes termed Black Christianity or African American Christianity) is the faith and body of Christian denominations and congregations in the United States that predominantly minister to, and are also led by African Americans, [1] as well as these churches' collective traditions and members.
African diaspora religions, also described as Afro-American religions, are a number of related beliefs that developed in the Americas in various areas of the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Southern United States. They derive from traditional African religions with some influence from other religious traditions, notably Christianity and Islam ...
[78] Sterling Stuckey, a professor of American history who specialized in the study of American slavery and African American slave culture and history in the United States, asserted that African culture in America developed into a uniquely African American spiritual and religious practice that was the foundation for conjure, Black theology, and ...
For example, an oral account from an African American in the nineteenth century revealed that African Americans identified as Christian but continued to make and carry mojo bags to church and practiced Hoodoo and Voodoo. As time progressed, many African Americans became more Christian and less influenced by African religions. [13] [14]
Pauli Murray. Women of African descent have always been active in Christianity since the very early days of this religion. African-American women mainly worship in traditionally black Protestant churches, with 62% [1] identifying themselves as historically black Protestants.
The SSBR was founded in 1970 to support black religious scholars' critical inquiry into the foundations of black theology. [2] The intellectual ferment which led to the group's founding began with Joseph B. Washington's publication of the seminal Black Religion in 1964, [3] and continued with the publication of James H. Cone's Black Theology and Black Power in 1969.