The Negro church
Subtitle: report of a social study made under the direction of Atlanta University : together with the proceedings of the Eighth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, May 26th, 1903
By: edited by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois
Contributors: Atlanta University; Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems (8th : 1903 : Atlanta University); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Series: Atlanta University publications -- no. 8
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Religion; African American churches; Slavery and the church; History; Church history
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: A sociological survey of black religion in the United States begins with a short description of primitive African religion, focusing on its nature worship and sorcery, and how Christian and Muslim incursions affected African religion and the disastrous effect of the African slave trade. The history of slavery and religion is followed by the struggles over the Christian legality of slavery, to restrictions of slaves in church attendance, to new educational efforts by such agencies as the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The report then shifts focus to "current conditions." It charts churches in 1890 by denomination (Baptist, African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.), African Union Methodist Protestant, Congregational Methodist, A.M.E. Zion, Colored Methodist Episcopal, Cumberland Presbyterian) and by state, reporting total church membership, number of congregations, and total value of church property. In addition, the report briefly covers other social issues, including the relation of the church to men and women, children, and ministers. Appended to the report is the program for the conference, along with the remarks of Washington Gladden, the keynote speaker, and a list of resolutions adopted by the conference.
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Transcribed from: The Negro church : report of a social study made under the direction of Atlanta University : together with the proceedings of the Eighth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, May 26th, 1903. / edited by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois. Atlanta, Ga. : The Atlanta University Press, 1903. viii, 212 p. ; 24 cm. Includes index. "Select bibliography of Negro churches": p. vi-viii. "Studies of Negro problems ... The Atlanta University publications ... no. 8. The Negro Church"--P. 213.

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