The Black Church in the US

No excuse shortcomings black man or white man tried to make a scapegoat ", the author studies the history of a black man in America, and talks about his religious life in the general environment. He is expected to start the black church, sending black missionaries, and the contribution of black American religious life and music. Then, the author answers many questions related to black churches, including the "Black power, black theology, civil disobedience, and an increase in apostasy. The Second Great Awakening of the eighteenth century led to the Christianization of the free and enslaved African Americans. Christianization, however, was neither forced nor encouraged. The teaching of Christ called upon African-Americans, because it gave them hope for a better future, and gave them a spiritual escape from their miserable lives. hostile blacks were treated by white congregations in the white church is also motivated them to create their own churches.

William Bank says that enslaved Africans were unable to save all of the native religion, partly because of their status and limitations, as well as is often combined with people from different tribes and to lose a common heritage (Banks 6).

Black preachers to administer, promote education and economic growth, and often the primary link between the black and white communities. Black Church created and / or maintained by the first black schools and urged the community to fund these schools and other public services. For the majority of black leaders, the churches have always been associated with political objectives in the promotion race. It has grown to be tensions between the black leaders of the North and people in the south who wanted to manage their own churches and worship (Banks 34). Because men have denied them access to a hierarchy of ordination, women of the middle class in the black churches have declared themselves in other respects: they organized a missionary society to address social issues. These social conditions of training and reading education, worked to improve living conditions, raising money for African missions, wrote religious periodicals, and also contributed to the Victorian ideals of femininity, respectability and racial uplift.

Despite the changes brought about by adaptation to the new world, slaves were able to preserve elements of their culture. In connection with religion, ritual and expressive elements included call and response interaction, shouting and dancing. They were included in the expressive ...