Civil Rights Religion

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13047085
AutoresVaughn A Booker (Princeton University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen2
Número2
Páginas211-243
Fecha de publicación2014-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Africana Religions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2165-5405 • E-ISSN: 2165-5413
EditorialThe Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5325/jafrireli.2.2.0211
OpenAlexW20033780
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas8

This article explores the historiography of the modern civil rights movement at the point where African American religious history and American political history intersect. Several scholars who have written about African American religion and politics during the 1950s and 1960s have wrestled with the significance of the appearance, characteristics, and motives of religions as expressions of political activism. By engaging how some scholars have created narrative portraits of organized African American religious women and men, I examine their stated and implicit definitions of African American religiosity, arguing that these definitions produce a historiographic portrait of religion as activism that refracts religious beliefs and practices through the lenses of social and political activism, thereby limiting the scholarly landscape of African American religious thought and expression in this period. I suggest the inclusion of recent works to broaden our sense of this period's religious landscape without dismissing the era's important politics

Aesthetics · African american · Art · Art history · Historiography · Literature · Narrative · Period (music · Political activism · Political science · Politics · Portrait · Religiosity · Sociology · American Political and Social Dynamics · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies