Research Catalog

Title

• Down, up, and over : slave religion and Black theology / Dwight N. Hopkins.

Author

Hopkins, Dwight N.

Publication

Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, c2000.

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Description

xii, 300 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"First reconstructs the culutral matrix of African American religion, a total way of life formed by Protestantism, American culture, and the institution of slavery (1619-1865). Whites from Europe and Blacks from Africa arrived with specific, differing views of God, faith, and humanity. Hopkins recreates their worldviews and shows how white theology sought to remake African Americans into naturally inferior beings divinely ordained into subservience. The counter voice of enslaved blacks is the birth of the Spirit of liberation."--Back cover.

Subject

Black theology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-287) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Historical Black Theology: Religious Formation of Race in American Culture -- Two Faces of Protestantism and American Culture -- Two Arrivals -- Slavery in American Culture -- Cultural and Religious Justifications -- From Sunup to Sundown--Slavemasters Constitute the African American Self -- Black Labor for White Profit -- Networks of Discipline, Control, and Reclassification -- Architecture of Slavery Churches -- From Sundown to Sunup: The African American Co-Constitutes the Black Self -- West African Religions: A Background -- Seizing Sacred Domains -- A Divine Right to Resist -- Creating a Syncretized Religion -- Constructive Black Theology: The Spirit of Liberation -- God--The Spirit of Total Liberation for Us -- The Acts of God--Ethics--What Does God Do? -- The Being of God--Ontology--Who Is God? -- Knowledge of God--Epistemology--How Does God Reveal? -- The Attributes of God -- Jesus--The Spirit of Total Liberation with Us -- The Goal of Liberation with Us -- The Road to the Goal -- Fruit of the Journey -- Human Purpose--The Spirit of Total Liberation in Us -- Created to Be Free -- Communalism -- Micro-Resistance and Self-Creation -- Racial Cultural Identity -- Language -- Spiritual Inspiration.

ISBN

0800627237 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99054737^^

OCLC

42708042

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library