Black Fundamentalists

Matthew J. Hall’s blurb on the back cover of Daniel R. Bare’s Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era states “Too often the history of Protestant fundamentalism has been an incomplete one, largely omitting the black experience.” Bare is praised for not only retrieving “a forgotten history of the black church,” but also for documenting “the varieties of broader American fundamentalism in the first half of the twentieth century.” This blurb correctly identifies a glaring omission in Protestant fundamentalist studies while simultaneously exposing a popular misunderstanding of Black religious conservatives’ place in the history of the “Black church.” The books under review here offer a strong foundation for the burgeoning subfield of what I am calling “Black evangelical and fundamentalist studies” in the disciplines of US religious history and African American studies. This designation provides a distinct scholarly location for Black religious conservatives on the US...

Aesthetics · African american · Black church · Christianity · Ethnology · Fundamentalism · History of religions · Identity (music) · Political science · Protestantism · Sociality · Sociology · History · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religious studies · Theological Perspectives and Practices