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1840s and 50s, even whites who fought for the elimination of enslavement were well established in their understanding of black inferiority. The next task for the new nation, according to Evans, was 'to find the unique contributions of black' and the focus was on the religious capacity of the African descendants (p. 36). Herein is the burden of the book's title and its theme, at least in the beginning. As long as I have studied religion and the United States African American community, I do not remember ever reading a book that took such a position, and the work of Professor Evans is remarkably assiduous. It is well worth plowing through the sometimes circuitous language of The Burden of Black Religion. It has 372 pages, divided into seven chapters: 'The Meaning of Slave Religion', 'Black Religion in the New Nation: Outside the Boundaries of Whiteness', 'The Social Sciences and the Professional Discipline of Black Religion', 'The Creation and the Burden of the Negro Church', 'The Drama of Black Life', 'The Religious and Cultural Meaning of The Green Pastures', and 'Urbanization and the End of Black Religion in the Modern World'. There also is an 'Introduction', an 'Epilogue', 'Notes

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Author

Janet M. Powers

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Informa UK (Taylor & Francis); Taylor & Francis; Informa UK Limited (ISSN 0048-721X)

Published

2010

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences