AFRICAN RELIGION STUDY

African Religion Study

African Religion Study

Introduction

At the core of the civil rights movement, the activism of thousands of participants was at once religious—rooted in the theistic traditions of Christianity and Judaism—and secular—concerned with dignity and deliverance from bondage of all persons. It was an existential Christianity shaped by a strong belief in the individual's worth, plight, possession of free will, and struggle with right and wrong. That philosophy led to principles of rights, equality, democracy, and self-worth. This amalgamation of the religious and the secular is perhaps what radicalized the social activism of the 1950s and 1960s and made it ...