Ain't Gonna Lay My 'Ligion Down: African American Religion in the South Tapa dura - 1996

Primera línea

The subject material addressed in this volume reflects a growing interest in African American history and specifically in its religious expression.

Descripción de contraportada

"Ain't Gonna Lay My 'Ligion Down" reveals the ways that African Americans have "put flesh on their Christian beliefs", adapting the faith of their European American masters and creating distinctive forms of religious expression. The contributors to the volume examine specific African American religious customs and practices - seekin' the Lord, ring shouting, dancing, pray's houses, ecstatic trances, spirit possession, folk songs, music, tales - and the efforts of African American religious leaders to show the remarkable degree to which newly imported slaves preserved their African spiritual heritage while simultaneously meshing it with Western symbols and theological claims.