African American Christianity (HS 680)
(01/06/2020-05/22/2020)
Course Memo
This course is designed to explore the people and events which shaped the African American religious experience and how the African American church helped shape the political, economic and cultural America. We will examine the African American church’s response to issues such as slavery, the anti- slavery movement, the civil war, the reconstruction era, the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, liberation theology, and the current ecumenical movement. We will look at both primary sources and the writings of African American scholars and historians who have written about the involvement of the Black church in these areas.