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This is a bible college and seminary level course in Ecclesiology and Black religion. Students will come to understand the Black church as it relates to the history of African Americans and to contemporary Black culture. The course will relate to the internal structure of the church and the reactions of the church to external and societal challenges. Students will be guided through the History of the Black church, its roots, culture, prophetic tradition and its contributions to black group identity, theology, politics, and the larger American society. Additionally, the course examines the political philosophy, social issues, preaching, and worship in the Black church.
This is a bible college and seminary level course in Ecclesiology and Black religion. Students will come to understand the Black church as it relates to the history of African Americans and to contemporary Black culture. The course will relate to the internal structure of the church and the reactions of the church to external and societal challenges. Students will be guided through the History of the Black church, its roots, culture, prophetic tradition and its contributions to black group identity, theology, politics, and the larger American society. Additionally, the course examines the political philosophy, social issues, preaching, and worship in the Black church.
Students who subscribe will be able to identify trends that will define the Black church well into the next century. The definition of the black church as an institution involves the seven historic American Black denominations: the African Methodist Episcopal Church; the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church; the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A.; the National Baptist Convention of America; the Progressive National Baptist Convention; the Church of God in Christ.
Slave Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Lincoln, C. Eric. The Black Church in the African American Experience. Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 1990.
, Henry Louis. The Black ChurchThis is My Story; This is My Song. New York: Penguin Press, 2021.
Reddie, Anthony C. Introducing James Cone. London: SCM Press, 2022.
The Black Christ. Maryknoll NY: Orbis Books, 2021.
In this lecture we will introduce two significant scholars in African and African American Religions and begin to dispel misnomers concerning African religious practices
In this lecture, we will follow up with your reading of the first chapter of "Slave Religion--The 'Invisible Institution,'" by Professor Albert J. Raboteau and explore African approaches to the Divine and religious identity in the "New World."
This lecture conducts a comparative study among Hatians, Afro Latin Americans, Afro West Indians and U.S. Blacks while examining which rituals or concepts were retained in the New World and those which disappeared.
This quiz is based on the introductory lectures in Section 1 and your reading of Chapter 1 and 2 of "Slave Religion"
Understanding the historical antecedents of the American Black Church
In this lecture we analyze the published observations of Methodist preachers during the Great Awakening which identifies various Africanisms among Afro-Americans.
This lecture conducts a comparative demographic study among enslaved in the Americas and seeks to resolve the Frazier vs. Herskovits debate. It also analyzes African influence in U.S. Afro American religion
This lecture answers the following questions: What were the obstacles preventing the conversion of Afro Americans prior to the great awakening? What were the major reasons for Anglo American resistance or indifference concerning Afro American baptism? What was the appeal of the Great Awakening among the enslaved and freed persons?
This quiz is based on African influence in the lives of the enslaved and demographic studies in the book "Slave Religion" by Professor Albert J. Raboteau
This lecture will help you articulate the biblical emphasis of revivalist preachers during the Great Awakening, key Afro American leaders during that era and their interpretation of conversion and baptism.
The objective of this lecture is to equip learners with the ability to write, teach and articulate the reasons for the split between the Northern and Southern churches and the rise of the Southern Baptist Convention and Methodist Episcopal Church South.
This lecture will enable learners with the ability to provide instruction to their own community of learners on how Christian fellowship unintentionally undermined and disturbed the social order which was based on Afro inferiority and Anglo superiority, and eventually led to the independence and institutional control by Afro Americans preachers and members.
You will be expected to articulate how religious life was conducted outside of the walls of the church on the plantation under the threat of severe punishment.
Based on Section 3 The Rise of the Afro American Preacher via the Great Awakening
Students will become fluent in describing the relationship of Baptist polity and Black Independence within the Baptist faith tradition along with Black baptist organizational history.
Student will be fluent in AME, AME Zion, and CME beginnings, its historical figures and its contributions to black advancement.
Student will become fluent in the roots of the CME church and the origins of Black Pentecostalism
You will have needed to read pg 20-97 in "The Black Church in African American Experience" and followed lectures 12-14 to take this quiz
The student will understand both the influence and sociological limits of the black consciousness movement arising after the civil rights movement within the church
The student will be able to show the connection between black church leadership and black political leadership in history and contemporary times.
The student will be able to convey as Professor James Cone stated, how black worship music "shapes and defines black being within a communal context."
Answer questions about the influence of Black consciousness and Civil Rights in the Black Church
This quiz on Future Challenges is based on your reading of Ch. 13; in your Black Church in the African American Experience book and not connected to a video lecture. You may also review the power-point in section 5 under lecture 17of downloadable materials. "The Black Church and Future Challenges"
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