Plantation church
Subtitle: how African American religion was born in Caribbean slavery
By: Noel Leo Erskine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780195369137; 9780195369144; 9780199358267
Subjects: History; Afroamerikanischer Synkretismus; RELIGION; HISTORY; Religious aspects; Sklaverei; Slavery; Religion; Theology; African Americans; Ethnic & Tribal; Caribbean & West Indies
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Remembering ancestors; title: Migration, displacement, resistance; title: The memory of Africa; title: Black church experience south of the border; title: The plantation church; title: The making of the Black world; title: Toward a Creolized ecclesiology.