The Negro Church: With an Introduction by Alton B. Pollard III

by W. E. B. Du Bois, Alton B. Pollard III (Editor)

Overview

W. E. B. Du Bois was editor and principal author of The Negro Church, first published in 1903. A groundbreaking study, this volume is the first in-depth treatment of African-American religious life. It is the first sociological book on religion in the United States. It is the first empirical study of religion conducted by Black scholars. It is a landmark historical text on African-American religion and mores of a century and more ago. A new introduction provides the contextual backdrop for understanding the religious scholarship and faith of Du Bois. The appearance of this text for a new generation of students, scholars, researchers, and communities of faith is cause to celebrate. Recognition of The Negro Church is long overdue and justly deserved.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621891086
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	11/10/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	334
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

W. E. B. Du Bois is a towering figure in African-American and US twentieth-century social, cultural, political, and intellectual life. He was a pioneering social scientist, leading literary light, political progressive, and precursor to the modern Black-led movement for freedom in the African Diaspora and on the African continent. DuBois's spiritual disciples and descendants among the world's communities of African descent are numerous.

Alton B. Pollard III is Dean and Professor of Religion and Culture at Howard University School of Divinity and is the author of Mysticism and Social Change: The Social Witness of Howard Thurman.
Alton B. Pollard III is Dean and Professor of Religion and Culture at Howard University School of Divinity and is the author of Mysticism and Social Change: The Social Witness of Howard Thurman.

Table of Contents

Introduction Alton B. Pollard III ix

Preface xxxiii

Select Bibliography of Negro Churches xxxv

1 Primitive Negro Religion 1

2 Effect of Transplanting 3

3 The Obeah Sorcery 7

4 Slavery and Christianity 9

5 Early Restrictions 14

6 The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 17

7 The Moravians, Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians 21

8 The Sects and Slavery 28

9 Toussaint L'Ouverture and Nat Turner 30

10 Third Period of Missionary Enterprise 35

11 The Earlier Churches and Preachers (By Mr. John W. Cromwell) 41

12 Some Other Ante-Bellum Preachers 47

13 The Negro Church in 1890 51

14 Local Studies, 1902-3 64

15 A Black Belt County, Georgia (By the Rev. W.H.Holloway) 74

16 A Town in Florida (By Annie Marion MacLean, Ph. D.) 83

17 A Southern City 88

18 Virginia 102

19 The Middle West, Illinois (By Monroe N. Work, A. M? and the Editor) 107

20 The Middle West, Ohio (By R.R. Wright, Jr.) 119

21 An Eastern City 140

22 Present Condition of Churches—The Baptists 144

23 The African Methodists 162

25 The Zion Methodists 173

26 The Colored Methodists 176

27 The Methodists 178

28 The Episcopalians 184

29 The Presbyterians 190

30 The Congregationalists 196

31 Summary of Negro Churches, 1900-1903 205

32 Negro Laymen and the Church 207

33 Southern Whites and the Negro Church 222

34 The Moral Status of Negroes 240

35 Children and the Church 255

36 Training of Ministers 264

37 Some Notable Preachers 282

38 The Eighth Atlanta Conference 283

39 Remarks of Dr. Washington Gladden 286

40 Resolutions 290

Index 293