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Plantation Church by Noel Leo Erskine, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Plantation Church by Noel Leo Erskine, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Plantation Church by Noel Leo Erskine, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Noel Leo Erskine

Plantation Church by Noel Leo Erskine, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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In Plantation Church, Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans. Typically, when people talk about the "Black Church" they are referring to African-American churches in theU. S., but in fact, the majority of African slaves were brought to the Caribbean. It was there, Erskine argues, that the Black religious experience was born. The massive Afro-Caribbean population was able to establish a form of Christianity that preserved African Gods and practices, but fused themwith Christian teachings, resulting in religions such as Cuba's Santeria. Despite their common ancestry, the Black religious experience in the U. S. was markedly different because African Americans were a political and cultural minority. The Plantation Church became a place of solace and resistancethat provided its members with a sense of kinship, not only to each other but also to their ancestral past. Despite their common origins, the Caribbean and African American Church are almost never studied together. This book investigates the parallel histories of these two strands of the Black Church, showing where their historical ties remain strong and where different circumstances have led them downunexpectedly divergent paths. The result will be a work that illuminates the histories, theologies, politics, and practices of both branches of the Black Church. This project presses beyond the nation state framework and raises intercultural and interregional questions with implications for gender, race and class. Noel Leo Erskine employs a comparative method that opens up the possibility of rethinking the language and grammar of how Black churches have beenunderstood in the Americas and extends the notion of church beyond the United States. The forging of a Black Christianity from sources African and European, allows for an examination of the meaning of church when people of African descent are culturally and politically in the majority. Erskine alsoasks the pertinent question of what meaning the church holds when the converse is true: when African Americans are a cultural and political minority. | Plantation Church by Noel Leo Erskine, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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