The African American Religious Experience

by Stephen Currie

Book Overview

Practicing religions indigenous to West Africa, many African and African American slaves in the New World came to adopt the tenets of Christianity in the eighteenth century. Eventually, many African Americans would come to practice a Christianity which blended both faiths, giving rise to the black church throughout the South. In this informative volume, author Stephen Currie surveys the history of the African American religious experience from the...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1420500066
• ISBN13: 9781420500066
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Lucent Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10