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The Burden of Black Religion (Paperback)
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The Burden of Black Religion (Paperback)
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In the long and tortured history of American ideas about race,
religion has played a prominent role. In this book, Curtis Evans
traces ideas about African American religion from the antebellum
period to the middle of the twentieth century. Central to the
story, he argues, is the notion-popular throughout this period-that
blacks were somehow naturally religious. In the antebellum period,
the religious sentiments of blacks were commonly pointed to as a
signal trait of their humanity and as a potential source for their
contribution to American culture. Abolitionists began linking the
distinctive religious feelings of blacks to their capacity for
freedom and by doing so made the first, halting steps toward
multiracial democracy. Yet the very notion of a peculiar African
religious sensibility masked doubts about the intellectual
abilities of blacks and reflected white misgivings about the lack
of spiritual and moral values in their own culture. Later, when
religion was less central to the lives and thought of American
cultural elites, the notion of natural religion became an obstacle
to African American integration. As more and more value was placed
on reason, rationality, and science, many whites pointed to blacks'
natural religiosity as a sign of their inferiority and used that
argument to justify their subordination. At the same time, many
social scientists-both black and white-sought to debunk the idea of
innate religiosity to show that blacks were in fact fully capable
of assimilation into white American culture. Evans shows how
interpretations of black religion played a crucial role in shaping
broader views of African Americans and had real consequences in
their lives. In the process, he offers an intellectual and cultural
history of race in a crucial period of American history.
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