This study focuses on the role of early African American Christianity in the formation of American egalitarian religion and politics. It also provides a new context for understanding how black Christianity and evangelism developed, spread, and...
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This study focuses on the role of early African American Christianity in the formation of American egalitarian religion and politics. It also provides a new context for understanding how black Christianity and evangelism developed, spread, and interacted with transatlantic religious cultures of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Jupiter Hammon and the Written Beginnings of Black Theology -- Chapter Two. Phillis Wheatley and the Charge toward Progressive Black Theologies -- Chapter Three. John Marrant and the Narrative Construction of an Early Black Methodist Evangelical -- Chapter Four. Prince Hall and the Influence of Revolutionary Enlightenment Philosophy on the Institutionalization of Black Religion -- Chapter Five. Richard Allen and the Further Institutionalization of Black Theologies -- Chapter Six. Maria Stewart and the Mission of Black Women in Evangelicalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
