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The Black Church

The Black Church. A Refuge in a Hostile World. African Past. Black Church(es). Western Christianity. filter. Black Sacred Cosmos. W.E.B. Dubois – “The Negro church was born in the African forest.”. African Survival a means to:.

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The Black Church

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  1. The Black Church A Refuge in a Hostile World

  2. African Past Black Church(es) Western Christianity filter Black Sacred Cosmos W.E.B. Dubois – “The Negro church was born in the African forest.”

  3. African Survival a means to: • Explain the Black Church’s freedom to interpret scripture & his own suffering • Give identity & meaning to his existence • Deposit his African culture • Frazier – “basis of social cohesion”

  4. The African in America: A Religious Historical Overview Free African Society – Richard Allen & Absalom Jones Mother Bethel AME – Phil. Richard Allen AMEZ in NY – Peter Williams & Francis Jacobs North South 1801 1794 1787 AFRICA 1800 1773 1750 1701 1619 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (London) Quakers & Anglicans 1st Quasi-Independent Church Siverbluff, SC – George Liele 1st Africans arrive in Jamestown as Indentured Servants Great Awakening 2/3 Baptists, 1/3 Methodists Insurrections, etc…

  5. The African in America: A Religious Historical Overview Urbanization & Migration to Northern cities (secularization, social differentiation & storefronts) Freedman begin churches, educ. Inst. & foreign missions for political & social good North South Post WWII Black middle class develops 1914 1945 1801 1794 1787 AFRICA 1865-66 1950s/60s 1906 1897 1850 1800 1773 1750 1701 1619 Black Power & Black Protest Complete Split b/w most Black & White Baptists & Methodists Invisible now Visible, Institutionalized & Structured First Black Pentecostal Movement Spread of Black Pentecostal to LA – Azuza Street Decline of population in the South (77% in 1890, 72% in 1900, and by 1910 66% of all African Americans lived in the South; by 1975, 75% of all African Americans lived in the North). Today, a steady movement back to the South.

  6. Black Theology • Black church is a direct consequence of slavery • Black church is a response to racism • Norm=presence of a Black Jesus “The norm of all God talk which seeks to be Black talk is the manifestation of Jesus as the Black Christ who provides the necessary soul for Black liberation.”

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