Ain't Gonna Lay My 'ligion Down
Ain't Gonna Lay My 'ligion Down

Author: Alonzo Johnson

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781570031090

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This text examines how African Americans have created distinctive forms of religious expression. Contributors explore the degree to which newly imported slaves preserved their African spiritual heritage whilst meshing it with Western symbols and theological claims.

God's Almost Chosen Peoples
God's Almost Chosen Peoples

Author: George C. Rable

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 0807834262

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Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to religion. Now, in God's Almost Chosen Peoples, Li