Bound for the promised land : African American religion and the great migration

Milton C. Sernett

Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact of the Great Migration - the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I - on the American religious landscape. In focusing on this phenomenon's religious and cultural implications, Milton C. Sernett breaks with traditional patterns of historiography that analyse the migration in terms of socio-economic considerations. Drawing on a range of sources - interviews, government documents, church periodicals, books, pamphlets, and articles - Sernett shows how the mass migration created an institutional crisis for black religious leaders. He describes the creative tensions that resulted when the southern migrants who saw their exodus as the Second Emancipation brought their religious beliefs and practices into northern cities such as Chicago and traces the resulting emergence of the belief that black churches ought to be more than places for "praying and preaching." Explaining how this social gospel perspective came to dominate many of the classic studies of African American religion, Bound for the Promised Land sheds new light on various components of the development of black religion, including philanthropic endeavours to "modernise" the southern black rural church. In providing a balanced and holistic understanding of black religion in post-World War I America, Bound for the Promised Land will help both academic and non-academic readers to gain insight into the present and future challenges confronting this vital component of America's religious mosaic.

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Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact of the Great Migration - the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I - on the American religious landscape. In focusing on this phenomenon's religious and cultural implications, Milton C. Sernett breaks with traditional patterns of historiography that analyse the migration in terms of socio-economic considerations. Drawing on a range of sources - interviews, government documents, church periodicals, books, pamphlets, and articles - Sernett shows how the mass migration created an institutional crisis for black religious leaders. He describes the creative tensions that resulted when the southern migrants who saw their exodus as the Second Emancipation brought their religious beliefs and practices into northern cities such as Chicago and traces the resulting emergence of the belief that black churches ought to be more than places for "praying and preaching." Explaining how this social gospel perspective came to dominate many of the classic studies of African American religion, Bound for the Promised Land sheds new light on various components of the development of black religion, including philanthropic endeavours to "modernise" the southern black rural church. In providing a balanced and holistic understanding of black religion in post-World War I America, Bound for the Promised Land will help both academic and non-academic readers to gain insight into the present and future challenges confronting this vital component of America's religious mosaic.

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書名 Bound for the promised land : African American religion and the great migration
著作者等 Sernett, Milton C.
シリーズ名 The C. Eric Lincoln series on the black experience
出版元 Duke University Press
刊行年月 1997
ページ数 x, 345 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0822319934
0822319845
NCID BA34867363
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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